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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Primitive Time
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3900 BCE
Important Medicines still used today
Morphine for pain and digitalis for heart -
3800 BCE
Believed disease was caused by?
Supernatural spirts and demons -
3700 BCE
Average life span
20 years old -
2900 BCE
How do they heal?
People called on the gods to heal them -
2800 BCE
Who are physicians? Who was the first?
Physicians were priests the first was Imhotep -
2700 BCE
Average life span
20-30 years -
Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
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1600 BCE
Dissection
(Beliefs and result)
Religious beliefs against dissection resulted incomplete knowledge of the body structure -
1500 BCE
Importance of the whole body
Curing the spirit and nourishing the body -
1400 BCE
Average life span
20-30 years -
Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
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Period: 753 BCE to 410
Ancient Romans
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460 BCE
Hippocrates
The father of medicine -
384 BCE
Aristotle
Dissected animals also know as the founder of comparative anatomy -
370 BCE
Average life span
25-35 years -
Period: 300 BCE to 3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
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200 BCE
Sanitation system
- Clean aqueducts to help carry water to the cities
- built sewers to help carry waste materials away from all the cities
- filtering systems for public baths to prevent disease
- drained marshes to reduce malaria
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100 BCE
Hospitals
Physicians would care for the ill people in the rooms are their own homes -
300
Average life span
25-35 years -
300
Average life span
20-30 years -
400
Prohibited study of medicine and why? And
Saving the soul was the main point of medicine so studying anything other than that was prohibited -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
How did they treat diseases?
Divine intervention and prayers -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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850
Medical Universities
In the 9th century physicians began to learn from universities -
900
Pandemic
Worldwide epidemic of the Black Plague killed 3/4 of Europe and Asias population -
910
Rhazes
A Arab physician become known as Arab Hippocrates -
1000
Average life span
20-35 years -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1401
Rebirth
Science of medicine -
1425
Dissection
To better understand the human anatomy and physiology -
1450
Artists
Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw and paint more realistically -
1475
Average life span
30-40 years -
1501
Cause of disease
Still not know -
Period: 1501 to
16th century
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1510
Father of Modern surgery
A French surgeon by the name of Ambroise Pare -
1523
Gabriel Fallopius
*Discovered the Fallopian tubes in females
* described the tympanic membrane in the ear -
Average life span
35-45 years -
Period: to
17th century
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William Harvey
Described circulation of blood to and from the heart for others to understand -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacists -
Average life span
35-45 years -
Period: to
18th century
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
Created the first mercury thermometer -
James Lind
To prevent scurvy he prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C -
Average life span
40-50 years -
Period: to
19th century
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Blood transfusions
First successful was done by James Blundell -
Elizabeth Blackwell
First female physician -
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern day nursing -
American Red Cross
Clara Barton was the founder -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered X-rays -
Average life span
40-60 -
Period: to
20th century
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin -
Open heart surgery
Heart and lung machine was used -
First transplants
- Kidney was done by Joseph Murray in 1954
- liver was done by Thomas Starzl in 1963
- lung was done by James Hardy in 1964
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CAT scan
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield -
Test tube baby
The first test tube baby was Louise Brown -
Average life span
60-70 years
