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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting, excorisms, amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis - for heart
Quinine - digestion
Belladonna and atropine - digestion
Morphine - pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Called upon the gods to heal them and they used medicine to heal disease as well as using leaches and for the art of splinting fractures.
Earliest people to keep accurate health records
Priests were the physicians -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
They were the first to use the primitive acupuncture therapies and its still used today. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
They were the first to find out that diseases were natural rather than spiritual.
The religious custom didn’t allow bodies to be dissected.
Hippocrates wrote the ethics called the Oath of Hippocrates which is the basis for todays medical ethics. -
100
Ancient Romans
They found that disease was caused by a lack of sanitation
Romans were first to organize medical care
This was the beginning of hospitals -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped study of medicine
The church believed that life and death was in Gods hands -
700
Treating Disease
They prayed to treat people -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
It caused millions of deaths because of uncontrolled diseases -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
Started universities and medical school for research
They accepted dissection for bodies for study
They started publishing books to get greater access to knowledge -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
He studied the anatomy of the body