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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginning
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused by
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
How did they treat illness
Tribal ceremonies to get rid of evil spirits -
3100 BCE
Medicine we use today
Digitalis is a foxglove plant that still give today in pill form
Quinine comes from bark on a cinchona tree
Belladonna atropine made from poisonous nightshade plant
Morphine is made from the opium poppy -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient time
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records were accurate and called upon by the gods
Priest acted as physicians and treated the sick
They would drain the blood and also use leeches -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
They used acupuncture therapies. They used stone tools and their methods eventually devolved in to advanced practice -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
They were the first to study it being natural than spirited
They were not allowed by their religion to dissect
Their spiritual belief was eliminated by research
Hippocrates was the father of medicine -
100
Ancient Roman’s
They learned sanitation system from the Greeks
They had the first organized medical care system
Physicians left a room in there house for the ill -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark ages
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500
stop the study of medicine
Empire was conquered by the Huns so the medicine had to stop -
700
How do you treat diseases
They treated the ill with a prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Ages
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics caused millions of deaths during the Middle Ages period -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
The building of universities and medical schools for research
The search for new ideas about diseases
The acceptance of dissection of body’s for study
The development of printing press and publishing books -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabrielle Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
He discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Knowledge to understand physiology and able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping hearts -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacies -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin franklin
Discovered of bifocals ( when sick could transfer ) -
Medical student learning
They also observed patients -
Joseph Priestly
Discovered the element of oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered method of vaccination for small pox. -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever -
Florence Nightingale
She gained experience by volunteering in hospitals -
Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology -
Dmitri ivanovski
Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms -
Joseph lister
Discovered microorganisms cause infection -
Ernst con Bergmann
Devolved asepsis -
Robert Koch
Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and also isolated the bacteria that causes turberculiosis -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganism -
Wilhelmina Roentgen
discovered X-rays took very first X-ray of his wifes hand -
Anesthesia
they would use herbs hashish and Achilles to relieve the pain and chokes the patients to knock ‘em out. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
found the penicillin that killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
found the conscious and unconscious part of the brains -
Gerard Domagk
discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
used live polio virus -
Francis crick and James Watson
discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Preformed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain to stop seizures -
Period: to
21st century
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5 advancements in medicine today
-Digital advancements in the medical field
-cure for ahlzeihmers
-cure for cancer
-Treatment for postpartum depression
-better mental health facilities