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  • Period: 4000 BCE to

    Early beginnings

  • Disease and illness caused
    3100 BCE

    Disease and illness caused

    Illnesses and disease were caused by supernatural spirits.
    They would have tribal doctors perform exorcisms to get rid of them. Digitalis used to treat heart failure and rhythm problems.
    Quinine used to treat malaria, leg cramps and your nervous system.
    Belladonna and atropine used to treat irritable bowel syndrome.
    Morphine treats severe pain.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • Kept accurate health records
    1900 BCE

    Kept accurate health records

    The Egyptians were the most accurate kept although records.
    The physicians were priests.
    They would use bloodletting with leaches attached as a method to drain out the sickness or disease.
    Th ancient Chinese were the first to use acupuncture and they treated illness with stone tools.
  • Message and herbal therapy
    900 BCE

    Message and herbal therapy

    The Greeks would house people in sacred temples but soon learned about massage and herbal therapies that would work more.
    Bodies were not allowed to be dissected at this time.
    Hippocrates the father of medicine based his info on observance and would follow signs and symptoms of disease.
    The Greeks brought clean water into their cities by using aqueducts to help cure some diseases that were caused by lack of sanitation.
  • Hospitals
    100

    Hospitals

    The Egyptians were the first to organize their medical care and send doctors and their equipment during wars.
    Hospitals started because doctors would hold people in their houses to take care of.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    The dark ages

  • Stopped study of medicine
    700

    Stopped study of medicine

    They stopped the study of medicine because the church believed death was in Gods hands.
    To treat diseases they would would pray, and use herbal mixtures.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    The middle age

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    During this time there was a epidemic that included diseases like bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. Alone the bubonic plague (the Black Death) killed 60 million people.
  • Period: 1350 to

    The renaissance

  • Rebirth of learning
    1450

    Rebirth of learning

    They started building medical schools along with other university’s. They used s printing press to create books for research and were finally opened to dissecting bodies.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo is know for his art and many other things. He also recorded the anatomy of the human body.
  • Gabrielle fallopius
    1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    Gabriele is famous for finding the Fallopian tubes in woman anatomy.
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo discovered the Eustacian tube which is a tube that goes from the ear to the throat.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    William was a physician who was the first person to understand and describe the circulation of blood and how the heart pumps.
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonine created the microscope and discovered bacteria causes tooth decay.
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Apothecaries were earlier pharmacies and flourished in trading spices and drugs.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin discovered bifocals and that colds could be passed from person to person.
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning

    They started going to labs, lectures and a serving patients. When patients died they would dissect them to understand the cause of death.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Joseph discovered the element of oxygen and also observed how plants refresh air.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Edward discovered a method to vaccinate smallpox, Savin millions of lives.
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Rene invented the stethoscope which increase the ability to hear the lungs, and heart so doctors could determine if there was a disease.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th century

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz discovered that women were dying after giving birth because physicians didn’t wash their hands or change their aprons. It lead to childbed fever.
  • Florence nightingale

    Florence nightingale

    Florence implemented action plans to improve sanitary conditions by making people clean both hands and body, this reduced their hospitals death by two thirds during the Crimean war.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Louis was known as the father of microbiology because he discovered that there were tiny microorganisms everywhere. He proved that they caused disease.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri discovered that filtered sap from sick plants could be used to transfer the infection to healthy plants.
  • Jospeh lister

    Jospeh lister

    Joseph was the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery, which helped prevent infection.
  • Ernst von bergmann

    Ernst von bergmann

    Ernst developed a method to keep areas germ free while surgery’s occur.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Robert developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and stopped the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
  • Paul ehrlich

    Paul ehrlich

    Paul created a way to explain the body’s immune systems responses and did work with chemo. He own the Nobel prize in physiology in 1908.
  • Wilhelm roentgen

    Wilhelm roentgen

    Wilhelm discovered x rays and took the very first picture of his wife’s hand.
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Anesthesia wasn’t used until the 19th century. They would use herbs, hashish , and alcohol to relieve some pain but used methods like choking patients until they were knocked out so that they wouldn’t feel the pain.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Alexander discovered that penicillin killed serious bacterias. This discovery was one of the most important in the 29th century.
  • Sigmund freud

    Sigmund freud

    Sigmund discovered that unconscious and conscious parts of the mind effects each other. This is how they would come to understand psychosomatic illness.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard discovered that an antibacterial dyes had actions against streptococcal and it helped agisnst the infections with humans.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Jonas discovered a polio virus cause immunity to poliomyelitis which paralyzed thousands of people.
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    He used a live vaccine which was for effective and is still used today.
  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Francis crick and James Watson

    They discovered the structure of DNA and explained how it replicates.
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    Christian esa the first person to perform a heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    Ben was a physician who separated Siamese twins, performed hemispherectomies, and did surgeries to prevent seizures.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Anti smoking laws

    Anti smoking laws

    This ban stopped people from smoking in indoors like bars and casinos.
  • 3-d printed body parts

    3-d printed body parts

    During this time doctors found living cells could be sprayed through printers. They used this to create body parts such as eyes, teeth, hearts, skin, ears, bones and ovarys.
  • Hepatitis b cure

    Hepatitis b cure

    This disease destroys you nor liver and to cure this there is a antiviral drug that reduces the virus’s chance to replicate.
  • Artificial organs

    Artificial organs

    Some artificial organs are eyes, hearts, skin, bones, muscles, brains, and liver.
  • HIV treatments

    HIV treatments

    In 2006 three antiretroviral drags were made into one which would help prevent aids.