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Morphine for pain and digitalis for the heart. Were discord in 3900BC
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People Believed disease was caused by evil spirits and demons in 3800BC
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The average life span in the year 3700BC for a human was 20 years
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They Called the gods to help heal the people with diseases
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Physicians were priests who also studied medicine and surgery in a temple medical school. Imhotep was the first physician in 2725BC
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The average life span for humans in 2700BC was 20-30 years
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Were believed to be evil and sinful
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People Started to believe in the need to treat the whole body but curing the spirit and nourishing the body
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The average life span of a human in the of 1400BC was 20-30 years
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Developed and organized method to observe the human body, recorded signs and symptoms of many diseases, and created a high standard of ethics and the Oath of Hippocrates and used by physicians today
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Aristotle Dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy believed illness is a result of natural causes
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The average life span in the year 0370BC was 25-35 years for a human
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Sanitation System Created aqueducts to carry clean water cities, built sewers to carry waste materials away from cities, used filtering systems in public baths to prevent disease, and drained marshes to reduce the incidence of malaria
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Early hospitals we starting to develop when physicians cared for sick people in their homes in 0100BC
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The average life span in the year 0300AD was 25-35 years for a human
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studies of medicine were prohibited because it was believed that Emphasis was placed on saving souls.
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Medications were mostly herbal mixtures in 0500AD
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The average life span in the year 0800AD was 20-30 years
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Medical Universities we first starting to form in the year 0850AD
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The bubonic plague killed ¾ of the population in Europe and Asia 0900AD
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An arab physician, became known as the Arab Hippocrates 0910AD
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The average life span in the years 1000AD was 20-35 years for as human
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The rebirth of science and medicine in 1401
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Dissections of the human body began to develop a better understanding of anatomy and physiology 1425
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Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw the human body in more detail and more realistically in 1452
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The average life span in the year 1500 was 30-40 years old for a human
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Father of Modern surgery Established the use of boiling oil to cauterize wounds, established use of ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding, and improved treatment of fractures and promoted the use of artificial limbs in 1510
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The causes of disease were still not known but many people were dying from infractions and childbirth
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Gabriel Fallopius Identified the Fallopian tubes in the female body, and described the tympanic membrane in the ear in 1523
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The average life span in 1600 was 35-45 years old for a human
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William Harvey Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart in 1628
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek Invented the microscope in 1666
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Apothecaries Made, prescribed, and sold medications In 1675
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The average life span in the year 1700 was 35-45 years old for a human
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Gabriel Fahrenheit Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714
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Edward Jenner Developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1795
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James Lind Was the first person to prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent scurvy in 1795
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The average life span in the year 1800 was 40-50 years old for a human
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The first successful blood transfusions performed on humans in 1818
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Elizabeth Blackwell Became the first female physician in the United States in 1849
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Florence Nightingale Discovered modern day nurses in 1860
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The American Red Cross was founded by Carla Barton in 1881
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Wilhelm Roentgen Discovered the X-Ray machine
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The average life span in the year 1900 was 40-60 for a human
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928
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in 1953 the first heart-lung machine was used to preform the first open heart surgery
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Heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard in 1968, lung transplant performed by James Hardy in 1964, liver transplant performed by Thomas Starzl in 1963
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The first CAT scan was created in 1975 by Godfrey Hounsfield, a CAT scan is used for getting images of the many structures inside the body.
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The first test tube baby was preformed by Louis Brown is 1978.
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The average life span in the year 2000 was 60-70 years for a human.
