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Period: 4000 BCE to 400
Ancient times
In these times medicine had many different cultural views. Health or illness was supposedly caused by the moods of the gods. There were natural remedies. Religion was a large factor of medicine back then. Primitive surgeries were sometimes performed back then. -
460 BCE
Hippocrates
The person who created the Hippocratic oath and made a strict code to keep a patients privacy and to never deliberately hurt a patient. He was born in 460 bc and he died on 370 bc. -
400 BCE
Hippocratic oath
The Hippocratic oath was basically hippocrates code of ethics that everyone has to follow to this day. The current version of this oath that we use was written in 1964 -
300 BCE
The medical symbol
The medical symbol that we use today is called the rod of Asclepius. Asclepius is the Greek for of healing and the symbol is a snake. -
130
Galen
Galen was a Roman physician with Greek origin. He was also a physician to the gladiators. Doctrine of the 4 bodily humors which are blood, phlegm, and yellow and black bile. Galen had anatomy demonstrations with dissection. The notes that he took were used to train phycisians for a very long time. Two things he did was note how the spinal cord is important for moving body parts and he preformed tracheotomy to cure breathing difficulties. He was born in the year 130 and dies in the year 210 -
200
Blood, phlegm, bile
Blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile combine to make the four humors. -
400
Religion and medicine
At this time, both Christian and Muslim religions supported the idea of helping the ill. Islamic hospitals had different sections for different illnesses and each section had trained nurses for the illness. Christian hospitals had local healers and their treatments mostly consisted of rest and prayer. -
Period: 400 to 1400
Middle Ages
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854
Rhazes
Rhazes was a Persian phycisian that had built ideas upon hippocrates. Rhazes discovered the difference between small pox and measles. He was born in the year 854 and his death was in the year 925. -
1025
The canon of medicine
The canon of medicine was written by phycisian Avicenna. It has five volumes of Greek and Arabic medicine. It was had dominant teachings of medicine until 17th and 18th century -
1100
Barber surgeons
Barber surgeons practiced bloodletting, cupping, pulling teeth, and enemas. When they served in the military, they treated battle wounds and amputated and cauterized limbs. -
1140
Regulations
In the year 1149, Norman King Roger 2nd decrees a license is required to practice medicine. People got their license by training and women were not allowed to practice medicine. -
1400
Anatomy
Anatomy used to be forbidden but when it started to be allowed, it allowed new ideas. -
Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
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1440
Printing press
The printing press helped publish books and spread ideas very quickly instead of writing down a book and ideas getting around slowly. -
1543
De humani corporis fabrica
De humani corporis fabrica was made by Andreas Vasalius. De humani corporis fabrica Was considered the first accurate work on anatomy. -
Scientific method
In the 1600s the scientific method was starting to get used more and more. -
Medical changes
In the 1600s there was big changes to medicine and research. People started to stopped guessing and blaming supernatural causes on illnesses. People also started to look for actuall causes for an illness by observing that one illness. -
Capillaries
Capillaries are blood vessels that form a network with veins and arteries. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner was well known for using fluid from cowpox to create a vaccination to prevent smallpox. Edward Jenner was born in 1749 and died in 1823. -
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Industrial revolution
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Stethoscope
René laennec invented the stethoscope and it was used to listen to the heart or the breathing of a person. -
Joseph lister
Joseph lister thought of using clean tools on patients instead of dirty ones. He cleaned the tools by using aseptic technique. Joseph lister was born I. 1827 and died in 1912 -
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Modern times
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Robert Koch
Robert Koch discovered that pathogens are the source of some diseases. Robert Koch was born in 1843 and died in 1910. -
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. -
X-rays
X-rays use electromagnetic radiation to take pictures of the bones in the body. It is usually used in hospitals to see a broken bone. -
HeLa cells
HeLa is a cell type in an immortal cell line in scientific research. -
Stem cells
Stem cells are cells that can differentiate into specialized cell types. Stem cells were discovered in 1981. -
Antibiotics
Antibiotics are drugs that prevents bacterial infections. -
Penicillin
A group of antibiotics. -
Robotic assisted surgery
Allowed docters to perform more complex surgeries with more precision, flexibility, and control. -
Human genome system
The human genome project was a project that tried to figure out the sequence that makes up the human dna system.
