History of Medicine

By kdurks97
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    Egyptians

    3500-500 BCE
    -Earliest people to keep accurage records
    -Identified some specific diseases
    -Used medicine to heal disease
    -Splinted fractures
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    Greeks

    Greeks-400BCE
    -Began the Study of disease
    -Hippocrates
    *Father of Medicine-Hippocratic Oath
    *Natural Explanation, Clinical Observation, Code of behavior
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle Ages

    -The study of medical science stopped for over 1,000 years (medicine was practiced only in monasteries and convents)
    -Used herbal medicine
    -Many plagues and epidemics-bubonic plague, smallpox, diptheria, syphilis, tuberculosis
  • Printing Press
    Jan 1, 1450

    Printing Press

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Discovery of America

  • US gained their independence

  • Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox

  • First practical anesthetic, ether, introduced

    First practical anesthetic, ether, introduced

  • Elizabeth Blackwell became the first womean to qualify as a doctor

  • Germ Theory introduced

  • Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

  • William Roentgen discovered x-rays

  • Clara Barton Isolated Radium

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin

    Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin

  • Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine

  • Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant surgery

    Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant surgery

  • Louise Brown was born

    Louise Brown was born

    first successful test tube baby
  • AIDs is named

    AIDs is named

    Found in the 1960's, but not given a name until now

  • AIDs officially announced to the world

  • First Cloning

    First Cloning

    Scientists clone the first sheep