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They used to use herbs and plants, and some such as morphine for the pain as well as digitalis
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Hey believed that illnesses and diseases where caused by evil spirits and demons and to “cure” the patient, tribal doctors treated it with ceremonies to drive out the spirits
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There average life span was only around 20 years.
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They relied on the “gods” to heal them when a disease occurred.
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The physicians back then were the priests, they studied medicine and surgery in temple medical schools. Imhotep, was the first possible physician in the day.
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The life span now was ranging from 20-30 years.
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Religious refusals against dissection had resulted in poor knowledge of the human body.
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They belived in caring for the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body.
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There life span remained the same at 20-30 years.
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He was known as the father of medicine, he developed an organized method to examine the body, recorded many signs/symptoms of diseases, and created a high standard of ethics, the oath of Hippocrates, is used by physicians today.
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They dissected animals and is called the founder of comparable anatomy.
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the life span of humans increased to about 25-35 years
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some of the public health and sanitation systems: creating aqueducts to carry clean water to the cities, building sewers to carry waste away from the cities, using filtering systems in public baths to prevent diseases, and drained marshes to reduce the incidence of malaria.
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hospitals began to develop when physicans cared for ill people in rooms of their homes
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average life span was still 25-35 years of age.
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a priority was placed on saving the soul, and the study of medicine was prohibited. prayer and divine intervention were utilized to treat illness and diseases.
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the medications that were given were a herbal mixture type, and the monks and priests provided custodial care for sick people
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the life span unfortunately dropped back down to 20-30 years.
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physicians began gaining knowledge at medical universties in the 9th century
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the pandemic of the bubonic plauge also known as the black death. it killed 3/4 of the population in countries such as Europe and Asia.
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an arab physican whom became known as Arab Hippocrates.
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average life span was still average, 20-35 years.
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it started the rebirth of the science of medicine
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they began dissecting the human body to get a better understanding of the anatomy and physiology.
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artsists like michelangelo and laenardo da vinci used dissection in order to draw out the human body and make it more realistic.
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increasing to 30-40 years
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the causes where still unknown at this point in time and many people where dying from infections and childbirth fever.
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Ambroise pare, a french surgeon whom was known as the father of modren surgrey he had did the following: he established the use of ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding and improved treatment of fractures and promoted use of artifical limbs.
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Gaberial identified the fallopian tubes in the female and described the tympanic membrane in the ear.
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35-45 years was the new average
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he described the circulation of blood to and from the heart
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created a powerful lense to see closer then the bare human eye will ever see, so he invented the microscope
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an early pharmacist made, perscribed and sold medications
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remained at 35-45 years
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Average life span was 40-50 years
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Created the first ever mecury thermometer
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He perscribed lime juice contaning the vitamin C to prevnt scruvy
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developed a vaccination to smallpox
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the first ever successful blood transfusion was preformed on humans by James Blundell.
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Became the first female Physican in the US
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Theodor Fliedner started one of the first training programs for nurses in Germany and provided Florence Nightengale with her proper training.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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Roentgen named it after themselves, the Roentgenograms, also known as a X-ray.
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Average lifespan was 40 to 60 years.
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discovered the widely used Penicillin
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The first heart lung machine was used for the first open heart surgery.
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The 4 biggest transplants included: A severed arm at the shoulder and was reattached, a liver transplant, a lung transplant and a successful heart transplant.
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CAT scan or more defined as Computerized Axial Tomography, which helped with seeing what was inside the body without having to cut open the patient.
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The first test tube baby was named Louise Brown and was born in England
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Average life span is about the same as today (60-70 years) and will most likely increase as we go
