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Some of the earliest demos were in Egypt during 1600 BCE. In Rome, anatomy demonstrations were performed on animals with dissections.
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Hippocrates wrote on examination and treatment of patients, and had a strict code to maintain patient privacy and never deliberately harm patients.
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Hippocratic Oath is the code recited by doctors after graduating as tradition. This is our modern code of ethics, and the current version was written in 1964.
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Galen was a physician to Roman Gladiators. He did anatomy demonstrations with dissection, and documented the importance of the spinal cord for movement. He also performed tracheotomy to cure breathing difficulties.
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A tracheotomy is a surgical opening on the trachea. This is to help when someone has difficulty breathing.
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The Bubonic Plague was a plague that affected Europe for years in 1346, a variation of the Justinian plague in 541 to 544. It killed 10,000 people at it's peak and was transmitted by fleas who bit rats.
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Chen Chuän was a Chinese physician and he described the symptoms of diabetes.
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Rhazes, a Persian physician, built upon the ideas of Hippocrates. He also documented the difference between smallpox and measles.
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Barber surgeons practiced bloodletting, cupping, pulling teeth, and enemas. They served with the military by treating battle wounds and amputating limbs. They burned amputees stumps to cauterize the wounds.
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The Canon of Medicine was compiled by Persian Philosopher Avicenna. It includes 5 volumes of Greek and Arabic medicine.
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Since science and reason was becoming more accepted, we started to make medicines which began their use in the 1400s.
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Printing presses published and copied books, spreading their ideas quickly.
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Andreas Vesalius wrote the first accurate work on anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica
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In 1543, Andreas Vesalius made this book, as new ideas allowed for the study of human anatomy at this time.
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Laudanum was one Medicine used, mostly as as a cough suppressant. But it is now considered a narcotic, considering that it contains mostly opium.
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Used to hear inner bodily functions better without pressing your ear up against the body. It is mainly used on the hearts and lungs.
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A viewing instrument used to see very small objects, like cells.
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Joseph Lister came up with the idea of cleaning anything to do with medicine. Listerine is named after him.
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Built on Pasteurs ideas and discovered that pathogens are the source of some diseases.
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Ether is an anesthetic, inducing sensitivity to pain.
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X-Rays are used to look inside someone's body. It's not just bones! Ultrasound is a type of x-ray, using sound.
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Radium is used to produce radon gas which can treat cancer.
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Before insulin, people with diabetes would die two weeks after the onset of it. Insulin is used for diabetics to help their blood sugar from not getting too high or too low.
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Antibiotics are used to treat some sicknesses with bacteria. Antibiotics do not work with viral infections.
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Penicillin was one of the first antibiotics, discovered in mold.
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HLa Cells are used to match you with a donor for bone or blood transplants.
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The first successful transplant happened in 1959. Transplants are done when someone's organ doesn't work. If you'd like, you can be an organ donor so when you die, your organs can go to someone who need them.
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Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that turn into differentiated cells when an organ or something is damaged.
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Robot assisted surgery is used when the thing the doctor working on is too small for them to work on.
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Genomes are the genetic material of an organism, otherwise known as DNA.
