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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused?
Evil spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, exorcisms -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today?
Morphine- pain
Quinine- digestion -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records- first to keep accurate records
Physicians- priests
How did they heal- medicines, and bloodletting with leeches -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture- The Chinese were the first to acupuncture therapy to treat illness/disease- still used today -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Nature vs. spiritual illness- the first to study diseases leading to discover what caused illness
Dissection- were not allowed to dissect bodies from religious customs
Hippocrates- the father of medicine -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Sanitation systems- learned from Greeks that sanitation was causing diseases and developed a system for clean water
Organize medical care- the first to organize medical care and would send equipment and physicians for wounded soldiers in the army
Hospital development- physicians keep a room in there house for the ill -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Why they stoped the study
Why did they stop the study of medicine?
- They stopped because they were being conquered by the Huns and they believed that life and death was in gods hands -
700
Treat disease
How did they treat disease?
- prayer, and herbal mixtures -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics- the black death, smallpox, syphilis, and turberculosis -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
Universities, dissection, and books -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo de Vinci
-studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopious
- he found the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
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1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
-discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
- he was able to describe the circulation of the blood and pumping of the heart
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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
- he invited the microscope
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Apothecaries
-engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the East -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
- he discovered bifocals and that disease can be passed from person to person
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Medical students learning
- discovered a new way of teaching that allowed students to attend lectures, observe at patient’s bedside, and learned diseases process from a cadaver when a patient died.
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Joseph Priestley
-discovered the element of oxygen -
Edward Jenner
-discovered a way to vaccinate for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
-invented the first stethoscope made of wood -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignacio Semmelweis
-founded the cause of child birth fever
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Florence Nightingale
-was well educated and raised the standards of nursing and made it a more respectable profession -
Louis Pasteur
- was known as the (Father of microbiology) because he identified that tiny microorganisms were all over
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Dmitri Ivanovski
-founded that the diseases that are caused by microorganisms cannot be seen under a microscope -
Joseph Lister
- was the first doctor to use an antiseptic while doing surgery (prevent infection)
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Ernst von Bergmann
-invented asepsis that keep a germ-free area before and during surgery -
Robert Koch
-founded diseases that cause organisms
-made a culture plate to discover pathogens and isolated the bacterium that causes turberculosis -
Paul Ehrlich
-discovered the effects of medication on diseases
-found a treatment to treat syphilis -
Wilhelm Roentgen
-founded the x-ray
-was the first to use it on his wife -
Anesthesia
-was not developed until the nineteenth and twentyth centuries
-they discovered nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform which puts people in a deep sleep -
Sir Alexander Fleming
-discovered that penicillin killed a deadly bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
-founded the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain
-studies based of psychology and psychiatry -
Gerhard Domgk
-founded sulfonamide compounds
-one of the first medicines that actually killed bacteria and diseases -
Janas Salk
-founded that dead polio virus would lead to immunity to poliomyelitis -
Wearable healthcare technology
-monitor patient’s while their at home
-helps with diagnosis
-long term plans
-has been improving over the years
(21st century) -
Albert Sabin
-used a more effective vaccine for polio virus which is used today -
Francis Crick and James Watson
-founded molecular structure of DNA
-made a model that identifies how DNA replicates -
Christian Barnard
-he performed the first ever successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
-continued to study in the separation on Siamese twins and operated on the brain to stop seizures -
Health records on electronics
-hospitals operate better
-physician work and focus on the patient better
-manages patient information better -
Virtual reality healthcare
-medical training on VR
-allows surgeons to examine/ do procedure on patient in VR -
3D printing
-The first ever 3D printed prosthetic leg was made in 2008
-In 2009, they bio printed blood vessels -
Period: to
21st Century
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Mental well-being
-more advanced and more options to get help
-more places to get help such as a psych units and therapist offices