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Illness was entirely supernatural and were seen as punishments from the gods. Witch doctors treated patients with ceremonies, prays, herbs, plants, and Trepantation which was removing a large chunk of skull to let the evil spirits free. Life expectancy was at an all time low of 20 years. -
disease was still the gods punishment so priests were doctors. they used blood letting and leaches to remove "bad blood" usually it did more harm than good. -
Begin searching for medical reason for illness and not blame it on gods. Believed in treating the whole body by curing spirit and used acupuncture therapy. First to start mapping out the body. -
Hippocrates and other physicians fully believe disease was a result of nature. Emphasizes diet, hygiene, and exercise. Still uses herbs and massages to help the diseased. -
large medical care for soldiers. first sewers and aqueducts. four body humors of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bite. -
average life expectancy was reduced because of a large focus on worship and a ban on medical research. -
Arabs began requiring tests and licenses for physicians to prove they can help people. -
Medical universities started forming -
mostly the Bubonic plague but also smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid and malaria killed more than 75% of the population. -
It was a rebirth in medicine and science. bodies were dissected for a better understanding of anatomy. -
first printing press was invented and later in 1543 the first anatomy book was published. -
A french surgeon named Ambroise Pare used ligatures to stop bleeding. -
Early pharmacists began making prescribed and sold medications, and later in 1670 was the invention of the microscope. -
1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer. -
Benjamin Franklin invents Bifocals (glasses). -
1778 John Hunter established surgical procedures and tube feeding. 1798 a smallpox vaccine was invented. -
rapid developments in medical science due to the discovery of microorganisms, anesthesia, and vaccines. life span is up to 40-60. -
the invention of the stethoscope -
training formal nurses and introducing women into health care. -
The first open heart surgery was preformed. -
X-ray machine developed. -
AOB blood types discovered and how white blood cells fight disease. -
minimal surgery was invented -
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
Rota virus - 1998
2006: HPV (Human Papillomavirus Vaccine)
Prevent Cervical Cancer
2015: Malaria
2015: Ebola -
1922 insulin was discovered. 1928 penicillin was invented for infections. 1996 advances in HIV medication made the death sentence it was to a manageable disease. -
1943 kidney dialysis machine was invented. 1953 heart lung machine was invented, structure of DNA was discovered, and research in gene therapy starts. surgical and diagnostic techniques developed to cure once fatal conditions. -
First bone marrow transplant and it initiated embryonic stem cell research. -
1960: Kidney transplant, 1963: Liver transplant, 1967: Heart transplant, 1982: Artificial Heart transplant -
targeted cancer treatments to disrupt spread of harmful cells. -
first test tube baby was born -
stem cell research has advanced to the point where we can re-create damaged or lost tissue. -
the first entirely implantable artificial heart was placed in a patient. -
the human genome project was completed to get a handle on genetic and autoimmune diseases -
face transplants for damaged face tissues