History of Medicine

By Fer_MG
  • Primitive Times
    3000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    • Believed that illnesses were caused by evil spirits/demos
    • Herbs and plants were used as medication
    • Trepanation- removing a piece of bone of the skull LIfe Span - 20 Years
  • Ancient Romans
    410 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    • First to provide medical care
    • First public health sanitation systems
    • Body was regulated by 4 body humors - Blood, Phlegm, Black bile, and Yellow bile Life Span - 25-35 Years
  • Ancient Egyptians
    300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    • Priests were physicians
    • Egyptians recorded the first Health records
    • Leeches were used in medical procedures Life Span- 20-30 years
  • Ancient Chinese
    200 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    • Needed to treat the whole body
    • Therapies like acupuncture were used Life Span - 20-30 years
  • Ancient Greeks
    200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    • Hippocrates (Father of Medicine)
    • Believes illness was a result of natural cause
    • Used therapies (herbal, massage, etc.)
    • Hygiene & exercise (ways to prevent disease)
      Life Span - 25-35 years
  • Dark Ages
    800

    Dark Ages

    • Saving the soul and studying medicine was prohibited
    • Prayer was used to treat illness
    • Herbal mixtures were used as medicine Life Span -20-30 years
  • MIddle Ages
    1400

    MIddle Ages

    • Arabs required physicians to pass examination to become medical workers
    • Bubonic plague killed 75% of the population in Europe and Asia
    • Medical Universities were established Life Span - 20-35 years
  • Period: 1500 to

    16th and 17th Century

    1500´s
    - Modern surgery established the use of ligatures to stop bleeding
    1600´s
    -early pharmacists prescribed medicine
    1670
    - invention of the microscope
    Life Span- 35-40 years
  • Renaissance

    Renaissance

    • Rebirth of Science of Medication -Invention of Printing Press
    • First anatomy book was published by Andreas Vesalius Life Spam - 30-40
  • 18th Century

    18th Century

    • first mercury thermometer was invented
    • Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals
    • Tube feeding was introduced
    • Small Pox vaccine discovered Life Span - 40-50
  • 19th Century

    19th Century

    • X-Ray machine Developed
    • First Open Heart Surgery
    • Stethoscope was Invented
    • Training for Nurses Life Span - 40-60
  • 20th Century

    20th Century

    • ABO blood groups discovered
    • Insulin Discovered
    • Antibiotics
    • Kidney Dialysis Machine
    • Heart lung machine
    • Structure of DNA was discovered
    • First Bone Marrow Transplant
    • Targeted Cancer Therapies -Smoke Free Laws
    • HIV medication advanced
    • Test Tube Babies
    • Organ Transplants
  • 21st Century

    21st Century

    • First artificial heart
    • Face transplants
    • Vaccines