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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease Caused by
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatment for sick
They called the gods to help heal them. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Morphine
Ib prefen
Digitalis -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records
Priests as physicians
Gods to heal -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness caused nature vs spiritual - they thought that illness was more from nature
Dissection
Hippocrates -
100 BCE
Ancient Roman’s
Sanitation systems
Organize medical care
Hospital development - they created the first hospital system -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark ages
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500
Why did they stop practicing medicine
They stopped practicing medicine because they thought that life sand death was in Gods hands. -
700
Disease treatment
They treated disease with prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
The Black Death killed 60 million
Smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
New developments of learning for science
Universities
Dissection
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
Gabriel Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube leading form the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart -
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacies -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Bifocals and found that colds can be passed from person to person -
Medical student learning
Students attended lectures in a classroom and a lab and they observed patients bedside -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element of oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered the vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Discovered the cause of childbed fever -
Florence Nightingale
Attracted women into her school of nursing -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered that there were microorganisms everywhere and that they caused disease -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Discovered that some diseases were caused by things we cant see, called viruses. -
Joseph Lister
First doctor to use antiseptic in surgery -
Ernst von Bergmann
Invented asepsis, the method to keep an area germ free before and during surgery -
Robert Koch
Discovered many diseases and introduced the importance of cleanliness -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x rays -
Anesthesia
Anesthesia was discovered to help people numb the pain of surgery -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain. -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds, which kills deadly diseases -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that dead polio virus would cure poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Started using live polio virus vaccine which was more effective -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Separates Siamese twins and performs hemispherectomies -
Bionic Prosthetic
People can have fully functioning limbs that they might have lost or were not born with -
Period: to
21st century
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HIV treatments
There is now a way to decrease the effects of the disease -
Targeted Cancer thearapies
Over the past 10 years thearapies have been developed that kill cancer cells but leave healthy ones alone -
Human Genome Draft Completion
Scientists completed a genome of our DNA that now helps find cures for health conditions -
Controlling Heart Disease
Advancements in the cardiovascular area have decreased the number of heart related deaths over the last 10 years