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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for the sick
Ceremonies were preformed, and they removed part of the cranium so as to exorcise the demons. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis, Quinine, Belladonna, and Atropine, and morphine -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
They kept accurate health records. The priests were the physicians. They healed people by bloodletting with leeches, and splinting fractures. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
They developed acupuncture, and used stone tools. -
1796 BCE
Edward Jenner
He discovered a cure for small pox. This lead to the common practice of immunization. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
They figured out that illness is caused by natural things, and not spirits. Religion prevented humans from being dissected. Hippocrates is an oath of ethics that physicians take. -
100
Ancient Romans
Brought clean water through aqueducts, and created sewer to carry out waste. They organized by sending medical equipment, and physicians to armies. Roman physicians had an extra room in their house for the ill. This was the beginning of hospitals. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
The study of medicine was stopped
Because the church believed that life and death was completely in god’s control. -
700
How did they still treat disease
They prayed for health. -
Period: 800 to 1400
The Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
There were many terrible diseases including bubonic plague,Diptera, and tuberculosis. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
They began to build universities. Dissection of the human body became acceptable. They began to create books of medicine. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
He studied the anatomy of the human body. -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
He discovered the fallopian tubes. -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
He discovered the Eustachain tube -
William Harvey
He figured out how the heart pumps blood through the body. -
Antonie von Leeuwenhok
He invented the microscope. -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacies -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
He discovered that colds can be spread, and he created bifocals. -
Medical students learning
Many students began to study healthcare. -
Joseph Priestley
He discovered the element oxygen, and cellular respiration. -
René Laënnec
He created the stethoscope. -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
He identified the cause of puerperal fever. Many woman died from this after giving birth. He wanted people to wash their hands after dissecting the dead bodies so as to not infect the women giving birth. -
Florence Nightingale
She was the pioneer of modern nursing. She set a great example of how nurses should act. -
Louis Pasteur
He discovered that microorganisms cause disease. He also discovered that you can heat milk to get rid of the bacteria in it. He also created a vaccine for rabies. -
Joseph Lister
He was the first doctor to use antiseptic to clean wounds. -
Dimitri Ivanovski
He discovered that viruses cause sickness. -
Ernst von Bergmann
He created asepsis which is a sterile environment to preform surgery -
Robert Koch
He developed the culture plate method, and discovered the bacteria that causes tubercleosis. -
Paul Ehrlich
He discovered the effect of medicine on disease. -
Wilhelm Roentegn
He discovered X-rays, and took a picture of his wife’s hand. -
Anesthesia
They discovered and began using anesthesia. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
He discovered penicillin, which kills pneumonia, gonorrhea, and blood poisoning. -
Sigmund Freud
He studied different parts of the brain, and discovered psychosomatic illness. -
Gerhard Domagk
He discovered sulfonamide compounds, which kill bacteria, and deadly diseases. -
Jonas Salk
He discovered that using a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis, and could henceforth be used as a vaccine. -
Albert Sabin
He discovered that you can use a live polio virus to kill polio which was more effective. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
They discovered the structure of dna is a double helix. They won the Nobel prize. -
Christian Barnard
He was the first person to complete a human to human heart transplant -
Ben Carson
He separated Siamese twins, and preformed brain surgery to prevent seizures -
Period: to
21st century
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Stem cells
These cells are basically human made human cells that we can use to test new medicines -
HIV treatments
You can now get a treatment for HIV -
Controlling heart disease
They figured out ways to keep your heart disease under control. -
3D printing body parts
You can get organs and tissue 3D printed -
Telemedicine
This is a program that allows doctors to asses you without being in person