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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused?
Evil spirit -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer
Blood letting
Amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis for heart
Quinin for digestion
Morphine for pain. -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
First health care recorded
Physicians were priest
Splinting fractures
Drain blood -
1900 BCE
Ancients Chinese
First to us acupuncture
Used stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Greeks saw illness was natural not spiritual.
Hippocrates was the father of medicine
Religion in Greek did not all for dissections -
100 BCE
Ancients Roman’s
Built public baths with filtering by using acueductos that carried clean water.
Organized medical care by sending tools and equipment to army’s and physicians.
Physicians kept an empty room in their house for their patinas which were the start of hospitals. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopped study of medicine why?
The Huns concurred the Roman’s empire which caused the studie of medicine to stop. -
700
How do they treat disease
The church believed in prayer as a treatment and some herbal medicine. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics was the reason of millions of deaths. The black plague caused over 60 million casualties.
Smallpox
Diphtheria
Syphilis
Tuberculosis -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
University’s for learning and Medical research were built.
Dissection for the study of the body was accepted.
The printing press was developing and more books were being published. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th century
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Da Vinci recorded the human body and studied it. -
1550
Gabrielle fallopius
Gabrielle was the first person to discover the fallopian tube leading from female anatomy. -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Was able to describe and understand the circulation of blood to the heart. -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope which established there is life smaller the we can see. -
Apothecaries
Were early pharmacies that dealer in drugs and spices. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals and colds cold could be passed around. -
Medical student learning
Students attended lectures and laboratory and work at patients bedside. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element of oxygen and that plants refresh air with oxygen when the air is without it.