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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease Caused By?
Believed to be caused by supernatural spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick?
Tribal doctors would attempt to treat the sick by performing ceremony’s by removing part of the cranium with a primitive tool to get rid of the demons. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
-Digitals= Treat heart conditions
-Quinine=Controls fevers and relieves muscle spasms
-Belladonna and atropine=Relieves muscle spams
-Morphine= Treating severe pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
-Health Records= Tried to keep health records accurate
-Who are physicians?= Priest that acted as physicians
-How did they heal?= Use medicine to heal -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
-Development of acupuncture= Started out using stone tools too treat sickness’s but then eventually evolved into acupuncture -
900 BCE
Ancient Greek
-Illness caused Nature vs Spiritual= They studied the cause of the disease and figured the illness was natural rather than spiritual.
-Dissection= Religious custom didn’t allow their bodies to be dissected
-Hippocrates=Based knowledge of anatomy and physiology -
100
Ancient Romans
-Sanitation Systems= Systems to keep things sanitary including bring clean water to the cities
-Organize Medical Care= Organized for treating the sick and the injured
-Hospital Development= Physicians started to care for wounded soldiers then this started hospitals -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the Study of Medicine, Why?
Because the church believed that death’s were in Gods hands -
700
How do they Treat the Disease?
Prayer and herbal mixtures -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Ages
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1100
Epidemics
Diseases that effected many of people at the same time including Bubonic plague -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
The rebirth of learning
-Universities= Building of university’s and med schools for research
-Dissection= Body for study
-Books= Printing books allowed greater access to knowledge from research -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabrielle Fallopius
Discovered the Fallopian tube of the female body -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the Eustachian tube -
William Harvey
Understands physiology -
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacy’s -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered colds can be passed from person to person -
Medical Students Learning
Required a new way of teaching medicine -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered the method of vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever -
Florence Nightingale
Attracted well-educated, dedicated woman to the Nightingale School of Nursing -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered tiny microorganisms were everywhere -
Dmitri Ivanovski
discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms -
Joseph Lister
First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery -
Ernst von Bergmann
Developed asepsis -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease causing organisms -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of Medicine on disease causing microorganisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-rays -
Anesthesia
Helped have painless surgery -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio vaccine which is used to this day -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Separates Siamese twins and performs hemispherectomies and does surgeries o the brain to stop seizures -
Period: to
21st Century
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Smoke Free Laws
Prohibited smoking indoors -
Human Genome Project
Completed a draft sequencing of the human genome -
Face Transplant
Surgery on face -
Stem Cell Research
Can cure diseases -
Bionic limbs
Replacement of limbs