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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginning
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3900 BCE
Disease Caused by
Believed that diseases were caused by supernatural spirits and preformed exorcisms to try and get rid of the disease. -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Used exorcism to try and heal them and try and remove the cranium from the brain which was thought to also exorcise demons. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis and is given in pill form, used to treat hear conditions. Quinine comes from a tree, used for controlling fever, muscle spams and can prevent malaria. Belladonna and atropine are from a nightshade plant, to relive muscle pain. Morphine comes from opium poppy, used for severe pain. -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Were the earliest people to keep legit health records, called the gods to help them, priests were their physicians and used medicines to heal -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Used stone tools to start out with acupuncture, still used today -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Determined that many diseases has natural causes instead of spirits, did not allow people to be dissected due to religious reasons, wrote the ethics that doctors use today. -
100
Ancient Romans
Created cleaner waterways, 1st civilization to organize medical care like sending physicians to war to help the wounded, created rooms and buildings for sick people to stay at and be cared for at. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine
When the Huns took over the Roman Empire all medicine stopped, only preformed in convents and monasteries. -
700
How did they treat disease
Prayer, they believed that God would make the right decision -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Ages
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1100
Epidemics
The Bubonic Plague, Smallpox, Diphtheria, Syphilis, and Tuberculosis were very popular during this time. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
Restarting researching medicine again -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube that leads from the throat to the ear -
William Harvey
Discovered the circulatory system and how it works -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope and germs -
Apothecaries
The first pharmacies -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals and found that colds can be passed from person to person -
Medical students learning
Attended lectures, observed patients bedside, dissected bodies -
Jospeh Priestly
Discovered oxygen, respiration, and the plants ability to “breath” -
Edward Jenner
Discovered method of vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Florence Nightingale
Took 38 soldiers to fight Chloera and was known for her dedication to nursing -
Ignaz Semmelwies
Found the cause of puerperal fever -
Louis Pasteur
Known as the Father of Microbiology and discovered microorganisms -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Discovered that few diseases are caused by microorganisms -
Joseph Lister
Learned about Pastuers discovery and used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs -
Ernst von Bergmann
Discovered asepsis -
Robert Koch
Discovered disease causing organisms -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on microorganisms -
Wilhelmina Roentgen
Discovered x-rays and how it works -
Anesthesia
Before 1925, physicians would use herbs, chokers, or even chloroform to try and put the patient in the least amount of pain possible. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered that penicillin can kill very bad bacteria and was considered the one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious part of the brain -
Gerhard Gomagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds that are effective in killing bacteria -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used live polio virus vaccine which was shown to be more successful and is used today -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Did the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Does surgeries like separating twins and preforming hemispherectomies and help seizures from happening -
Period: to
21st century
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Mental Health
Doctors and people are becoming more aware about mental health instead of physical health. -
Non-invasive surgeries
Surgeons are coming up with ways to keep the patient more safe than before by using noninvasive techniques like probes -
Telemedicine
Doctors are using this to make appointments, diagnosis and treatment services more efficiently -
Genetic Research
The possibility to delete a disease through genes -
Unborn fetus’
Advances in technology is making it easier to preform surgeries on an unborn fetus that is still growing in the womb to help it survive