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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, amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis for heart, quinine for digestion , belladonna and atropine for digestion, morphine for pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
- First people keep accurate health records
- the priests acted as physicians
- they used medicines to heal and called upon gods to heal them
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1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
They were the first to use acupuncture that is still in use today -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
- first to determine illness not just coming from spirits
- stopped believing in spiritual illness
- religion did not allow bodies to be dissected
- Hippocrates the father of medicine based knowledge on anatomy he found disease not caused by supernatural force. Wrote the standard of ethics
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100
Ancient Romans
- learned from the Greeks to create sanitation system. They use clean water and made sewer systems
- the first to organize medical care sent medical care with their armies
- beginning of hospitals was where physicians kept a room in their house for the sick. Eventually public buildings for sick were established.
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Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped study of medicine
- the Roman Empire was conquered which produced a stop in the study of medicine
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700
How they treat disease
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Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics was the leading cause of millions of deaths. Some of these included bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, Syphilis, and tuberculosis. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
- The learning began again, universities and medical schools were built.
- people began dissecting the body
- publishing books and the printing press made learning knowledge easier.
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Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci recorded and studied the human body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered Eustachian tube (tube fro ear to throat) -
William Harvey
First to explain circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope and showed that life is smaller than what we can see. He also found bacteria that causes tooth decay. -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacies started and in England they began trading drugs and spices. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals and the fact that colds could be spread from person to person -
Medical students learning
Students attend lectures in classroom and laboratory but also observe patients. After patients died they were able to dissect the body. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered element of oxygen also found plants respiration -
Edward Jenner
Discovered vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope allowed doctors to see if disease was there -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Florence Nightingale
- durning Crimean war took care of soldiers dying from cholera
- devoted her life to get better sanitation and management of hospitals
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Ignaz Semmelweis
- identified cause of childbed fever
- found handwashing and cleanliness was SUPER important
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Louis Pasteur
Discovered microorganisms are everywhere and caused disease also pasteurization kills bacteria in milk. -
Dmitri ivanovski
Discovered filtered sap from diseased plants could transfer the infection to healthy plants.