Timeline: History Medicine Timeline -EMELY ORNELAS

4000 BCE

Primitive Times

Causes for illness & diseases: evil spirits and demons
a punishment from the Gods
-Treatments: Herbs and plants used as medicines, Trepanation or trephining
Life span (20 years)

3000 BCE

Ancient Egyptians

Physicians were priests
-Treatment: Bloodletting or leeches
Life span: 20-30 years

1700 BCE

Ancient Chinese

-Treatment: Treat the whole body, herbs,
They began to search for medical reasons for illness
Life span: 20-30 years

1200 BCE

Ancient Greeks

Hippocrates and other physicians
-First, check the body effects of the disease to what led to modern medical sciences.
They thought illness was a result of natural causes Treatment: therapies/massage, art therapy, and herbal

753 BCE

Ancient Roman

Medical care by providing care for injured soldiers.
Hospitals were religious and charitable.
First public health and sanitation systems. Galen established the belief that the body was regulated by four body humors: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile
Life span:25-35

400

Dark Ages

They saved the soul and study of medicine.
-Treatment: prayers, herbs
life span:20-30 Years

1350

Renaissance

Increased understanding of anatomy and physiology
1440: The invention of the printing press
1543: The first anatomy book was published by Andreas Vesalius
Life span 30-40 years

1400

Middle Ages

Their interest in the medical practices of Greeks and Romans.
1100: Arabs began requiring physicians to pass examinations.
1346-1353: Bubonic Plague killed 75% of the population in Europe and Asia Major diseases
DISEASES: Smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, plaque, and malaria
Life span:20-35 years

1499

16th and 17th centuries

Knowledge of the body getting better.
ligature to stop bleeding was invented and the microscope.
the ability to see germs was a HUGE advancement.
Life span: 35-45