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In the primitive times they believed disease was caused by supernatural spirits and demons.
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Important medicine still used today like Morphine and digitalis are medicines found then that are still used today
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The ancient Egyptian‘s would call upon the gods to heal them when disease occurred.
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In ancient Egypt priests were the physicians. Imhotep is said to have possibly been the first physician.
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In ancient Egypt the average lifespan was 20 to 30 years.
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The ancient Chinese had religious prohibitions against dissection, therefore resulted in incorrect knowledge of the body structure.
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They believe they needed to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and nerves in the body.
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The average lifespan of the ancient Chinese was 20 to 30 years
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Hippocrates is called the father of medicine.
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Aristotle dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy.
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The average lifespan of the ancient Greeks it was 25 to 35 years
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Public sanitation included aqueducts to carry clean water, sewer to carry waste materials away, used filtering systems in public best to prevent disease, drained marshes to reduce the incidence malaria.
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Hospitals we are religious and charitable institutions house in monasteries and convents.
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The average lifespan for the ancient Romans was 25 to 35 years
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The study of medicine was prohibited because they wanted to save the soul.
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Prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illness and disease.
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Dark Age average lifespan was 20 to 30 years
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Physicians began to obtain knowledge and medical universities in the ninth century.
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The bubonic plague killed 3/4 of the population of Europe and Asia
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Rhazes, an Arab Physician, became known as the Arab Hippocrates
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Average lifespan in the middle age was 20 to 35 years
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The rebirth of science and medicine
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Dissection of the body began to allow a better understanding of anatomy and physiology.
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ArtistsArtist Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci use dissection in order to draw the human body more realistically.
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Average lifespan In the renaissance was 30 to 40 years.
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Cause of disease Cause of disease was unknown, and many people died from infection and puerperal (childbirth) fever.
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Ambroise Pare,French surgeon, was known as the father of modern surgery.
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Gabriel Fallopius identify the fallopian tubes in the female and discovered the tympanic membrane in the ear.
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Average lifespan in the 16th century was 35 to 45 years.
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William Harvey described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope.
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Apothecaries made, prescribed, and sold medications.
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Average lifespan in the 17 century was 35 to 40 years
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Gabriel Fahrenheit made the first mercury thermometer.
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James Lind prescribe lime juice container and vitamin C to prevent scurvy.
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Edward Jenner developed a vaccination for smallpox.
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Average lifespan in the 18th century was 40 to 50 years.
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James Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion on humans.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female physician in the United States.
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Florence Nightingale Was the founder of modern nursing. Established efficient and sanitary nursing units during the Crimean war in 1854. Open the nightingale school at home for nurses at Saint Thomas‘s hospital in London in 1860. Began professional education of nurses.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
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Wilhelm Röentgen discovered roentgenograms (x-rays)
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Average lifespan in the 19th century was 40 to 60 years.
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
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The first Heart-Lung machine was used for on open heart surgery.
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By 1968 a successful heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplant had been preformed.
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The computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan was developed.
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The first test tube baby was born in England.
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Average lifespan in the 20th century was 60 to 70 years.
