Timeline: History Of Medicine-Elijah Lee

4000 BCE

primitive

-Diseases and illnesses were thought to be caused by evil spirits and were a punishment from god
-To cure disease they thought that they needed to do ceremonies
-They used herbs as medicine to help
-The first surgery was performed in the form of trepanation where they removed a piece of bone from the skull
-The average lifespan was 20 years

3000 BCE

Ancient Egypt

-Physicians were priests
-Health records began to be recorded
-Bloodletting or leeches were used as medical treatments
-Ancient Egyptians had an advanced knowledge of the anatomy of humans
-Lifespan between 20 and 30

1700 BCE

Ancient China

-Believed in treating the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body
-Used medicine mainly based on herbs
-used therapies such as acupuncture and acupressure
-In this time period they began to search for medical reasons for illness
-Lifespan between 20 and 30

1200 BCE

Ancient Greece

-Hippocrates the Father of Medicine
-Observed the human and the effect of diseases that lead to modern medical science
-Believed illnesses were caused by natural causes
-used therapy such as massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment
-Believed that diet, hygiene, and exercise can help prevent diseases

753 BCE

ancient rome

-First to organize medical care by giving medical care to soldiers
-Hospitals were religious and charitable institutions in monasteries
- Built the first public health and sanitation systems by building sewers and aqueducts
-Galen believed that the body by four humors blood, yellow bile, mucus, black bile

400

dark ages

-Emphasized on saving the soul
-The study of medicine was prohibited
- Monks and priests provided custodial care to the sick
-Medicine was herbal mixtures
-disease blamed on circumstance
-lifespan 20 to 30

800

Middle Ages

-A renewed interest in medical practices
-In 1110 Arabs began to require people to pass a physician examination to get a license
-In 1220 medical universities were established
-From 1346 to 1353 the Bubonic plague killed 75% of European and Asian population
-Major diseases included smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, the plaque, and malaria

1350

The Renaissance

-The rebirth of science and medicine or science of medicine
-Body dissection increased the knowledge and understanding of our anatomy and physiology
-In 1440 with the invention of the printing press news in science and medicine was able to spread
-In 1543 the first anatomy book was published by Andreas Vesalius
The cause of diseases is still a mystery
-Lifespan from 30 to 40 years

1500

16th and 17th centuries

-Knowledge of the human anatomy increased greatly
-In the 1500's Ambroise Pare known as the father of modern surgeries established the use of ligatures to stop bleeding
-1600's Apothecaries/ early pharmacists mad
-In 1670 the invention of the microscope allowed us to see disease-causing organisms
-Cause of disease still unknown
-Lifespan 35 to 45 years

1714

18th century

-1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit created the mercury thermometer
-1760 Ben Franklin created bifocals
- 1778 John Hunter established scientific surgery procedures and made tube feeding
-1798 smallpox vaccine was made
-Life 40 to 50

1895

19th Century

-discovery of microorganisms, anesthesia, and vaccinations
-1895 x-ray machine made
-1893 was the first open-heart surgery
-1816 Invention of stethoscope
-1860 nurse formal training began
-Women participate in medicine
-Lifespan 40 to 60

1901

ABO blood types discovered

1910

Laparoscopic

1921

20th century vaccines

Diptheria 1921
Tuberculosis 1925
Pertussis 1927
Typhus 1937
Influenza 1945
Oral Polio 1962
Measles 1963
Mumps 1967
Rubella 1970
Chicken Pox 1974
Streptococcus Pneumonia 1977
Meningitis 1978
Hepatitis B 1981
Hepatitis A 1992
Lyme Disease 1998
Rotavirus 1998

1922

Insulin discovered to treat diabetes

1928

antibiotics developed to fight infections

1943