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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused?
They believe diseases caused by evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatment for sick
You could pray, blood letting, and amputation. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis for heart
Quinine for digestion
Belladonna and atropine for digestion
Morphine for pain relief -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptian
The Egyptians were the first to keep track of Health records in an accurate way. The priests were the physicians.They used medicine to heal. Also would end up learning how to do splinting. They would treat disorders by blood letting. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
The ancient Chinese were the first to discover primitive acupuncture therapy. They would use stone tools. The method the is a common practice today. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
The Greeks were the first to think it wasn't a spiritual illness but a natural illness. They started to studying medicine. They didn’t allow them to dissect body’s because of religion. The father of medicine is Hippocrates. -
100
Ancient Romans
The Roman’s learned from the Greeks and ended up developing a sanitation system. That brought clean water. First to organize medical care for wounded soilders. The physician would keep a room in there house for when they were ill. That was the beginning of the hospital. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stop practicing and studying medicine
When the Romans were taken over by the Huns they stopped medicine practice. This was because the church thought that it was on Gods hands when you die. Monks collected there writings of the Greek and Roman physician’s -
700
How do they treat disease?
They would pray, use herbal mixtures, and the care was custodial. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Ages
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics caused million deaths. Other uncontrolled diseases were smallpox, diphtheria, and syphilis. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
The universities were used for research. There was an exception of dissection. They alllowed books to be pressed printed and published for the practice of researching. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo Da Vinci
He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tube of the female anatomy. -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat. -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
She invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
They would engage in drug and spices trading with England. -
William Harvey
He used his knowledge of physiology to discover the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart. -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
He discovered bifocals and found out that colds can be spread from one person to the next. -
Medical Students learning
They would attend lectures and observe human body’s on the bed side. -
Joseph Priestly
Discovered the element of oxygen and then observed plants refresh air that have lost oxygen, making it usable for respiration. -
Edward Jenner
Discovered the vaccination for small pox. This helped discover immunization and to preventive medicine in public health. -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope to increase the ability to hear the heart. -
Period: to
19th and 20th Century
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Ignaz Semmelweis
He discovered why childbed fever was so much more popular in the hospital rather than if you have a midwife. This is because the physicians did not change there gloves or anything after touching human body remains and then delivering a baby.