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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by demons
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3600 BCE
Treatments of the sick
Trephining, Removing a part of the skull -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis,
Quinine,
Belladonna, atropine, and
Morphine -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
First to keep Health Records,
The priests were the physicians,
They used medicine and bloodletting -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture -
900 BCE
Ancient Greek
Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual,
Dissection,
Hippocrates -
100 BCE
Ancient Romans
Made Sanitation Systems,
Organize medical care,
Hospital development -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
stopped the study of medicine
The church believed that life and death were in gods hands -
700
Treatment for sick
treatment for the sick was prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Ages
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1100
epidemics
Epidemics caused millions of deaths -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
The rebirth of learning
Universities,
Dissection,
Books -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
He drew diagrams of the human body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
He was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
one of the founders of the science of human anatomy -
William Harvey
made influential contributions in anatomy and physiology -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
the Father of Microbiology, one of the first microscopists and microbiologists -
apothecaries
medical professional -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
He was a scientist -
Medical students learning
Students started studying the medical field -
Joseph Priestley
He was a chemist -
Edward Jenner
pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first ever vaccine -
Rene Laennec
invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
physician and scientist -
Florence Nightingale
founder of modern nursing -
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist -
Dmitri Ivanovski
co-discoverer of viruses -
Joseph Lister
pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine -
Ernst von Bergmann
He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surger -
Robert Koch
he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology. -
Paul Ehrlich
finding a cure for syphilis -
Wilhelm Roentgen
produced and detected electromagnetic radiation -
Anesthesia
Made to make patients fall asleep during operations -
Sir Alexander Fleming
discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin -
Sigmund Freud
founder of psychoanalysis -
Gerhard Domagk
He is credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine -
Jonas Salk
developed one of the first successful polio vaccines -
Albert Sabin
developed the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease -
Francis Crick and James Watson
determined the double-helix structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. -
Ben Carson
neurosurgeon -
da Vinci Surgical System
facilitate surgery using a minimally invasive approach, and is controlled by a surgeon from a console -
Laparoscopic Surgery
Georg Kelling of Dresden, Germany, performed the first laparoscopic procedure -
Period: to
21st Century
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Human Genome Discoveries Reach the Bedside
For the first time, the world could download and read the complete set of human genetic information and begin to discover what our roughly 20,000 genes do. -
Targeted Therapy in Cancer Treatment
This concept was first proposed by Judah Folkman in the early 1970s, but it wasn't until 2004 -
HIV Treatments
A treatment for the HIV illness