History of Medicine- Tanja Bosnjak

  • Primitive Times
    4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    • Humans believed sickness was causes by demons or a punishment from god -(Trepanation) used putting a whole in the skull surgically -Herbs and plants used as medicine -Witch doctors treated illness -AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 20 YEARS
  • Ancient Egyptians
    3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    -Priests were physicians
    -Healthy records first recorded by ancient Egyptians
    - (Blood letting) used- draining blood out of the body to help it
    -(Leeches) used for medical treatment
    -AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 20-30 years
  • Ancient Chinese
    1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    • Treat the whole body by curing spirit and nourishing the body -Recorded a pharmacopoeia of medicines based on the use of herbs
    • Used (Acupuncture) sticking needles in aches to relieve pain
    • Started a search for medical reasons of illnesses -AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 20-30 years
  • Ancient Greeks
    1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    -Hippocrates (Father of Medicine) and other physicians
    -Ancient greeks are first to observe the human body and the effects of disease leading to modern medical sciences.
    - Illness is caused by natural causes
    - Therapies used, massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment
    - Stressed diet, hygiene and exercise to present diseases
    -AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 25-35 years
  • Ancient Romans
    753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    -Ancient Romans are first to organize a medical cure by providing care for injured soldiers
    -Hospitals became religious and charitable institutions in monasteries and convents
    - Ancients greeks first public health and sanitation system by making sewers and aqueducts
    - Galen believed that the body was regulated by 4 body humors blood-music, phlegm- slow respone dancing, yellow bile- anger hitting, black bile- depression
    -AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 25-35 years
  • Dark Ages
    400

    Dark Ages

    -Emphasis on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited-praying was used to treat sickness
    - Monks and priests cared for sick people
    - Medicines were herbal mixtures
    - Still doesn't now what diseases are causes by
    -AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 20-30 years
  • Middle Ages
    800

    Middle Ages

    -1100 BC: Arabs started requiring physicians to pass examinations then obtain license.
    -1346-1353 BC: Bubonic Plaque- flea disease, killed 75% of population in Europe and Asia
    -Major diseases included
    smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, the plaque, and malaria
    -1220-1255: Medical Universities were established
    AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 20-35 years
  • Renaissance
    1350

    Renaissance

    -Rebirth of science and medicine
    -Body Dissections led to more understanding of anatomy and physiology
    -1400: The invention of printing press led to the medical knowledge to be shared
    -1543:First anatomy book was published by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
    - Disease causes remain a mystery
    AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 30-40 years
  • 16th and 17th centuries
    1500

    16th and 17th centuries

    -More knowledge on the human body
    -1500's: Ambroise Pare, a French surgeon, known as the Father of Modern Surgery established use of ligatures to stop bleeding
    -1600's: Apothecaries (early pharmacists) made, prescribed, and SOLD MEDICATIONS
    -1670: Invention of the microscope which Allowed physicians to see disease-causing organisms.
    *HUGE advancement
    - cause of disease still unknown many people died from diseases
    AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 35-35 years
  • 18th century

    18th century

    -1714: Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) created the first mercury (thermometer)
    -1760: Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals
    -1778: John Hunter established scientific surgical procedures and introduced (tube feeding)
    -1798: Smallpox vaccine is discovered
    AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 40-50 years
  • 19th century

    19th century

    -Rapid advancements due to discoveries of microorganisms, anesthesia, and vaccinations
    -1895- X-Ray machine developed
    -1893: First Open Heart Surgery
    INFECTION CONTROL DUE TO MICROORGANSIMS WITH DISEASES
    -1816: Invention of the stethoscope
    -1860: Formal training for nurses began
    WOMEN BECAME NURSES
    AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 40-60 YEARS
  • 19th century

    19th century

    1901: ABO blood groups discovered
    -found out white blood cells protect diseases
    -new medications developed
    1922: Insulin discovered and used to treat diabetes
    1928: Antibiotics developed to fight infections (penicillin)
    -New machines
    1943: kidney dialysis machine
    1953: Heart lung disease
    1953: Structure of DNA discovered and researched in the gene therapy
  • 20th-21st century

    20th-21st century

    1910: Laparoscopic Surgery
    -Minimal Invasive Surgery
    1970’s: Targeted Cancer Therapies
    -Interferes with the spread of cancer by blocking cells involved in
    a tumor growth
    -Identify and kill the cancer cells
    1990: Smoke Free Laws
    -Decrease in 2nd Hand Smoke
    1996: Advances in HIV Medication
    -Turned a “death sentence disease” into a manageable chronic ----disease – NORMAL LIFE SPAN
    1999: Rapid advances in Stem Cell Research
    -Re-Create lost/damaged tissue
  • 20th century

    20th century

    1956:The First Bone Marrow Transplant
    -Initiated Embryonic Stem Cell Research
    1978: Test tube babies
    -Organ Transplants
    1960: Kidney
    1963: Liver
    1967: Heart
    1982: Artificial Heart
  • 20th century vaccines

    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
  • 21st century

    21st century

    2001: First totally implantable artificial heart was places in a patient.
    2003: Human genome project completed
    mapped out diseases
    2005: face trasnplants
    VACCINES
    2006: HPV
    2015: MALARIA
    2015: EBOLA