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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early begins
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Herbs and plants. -
Period: 2999 BCE to 300
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Health records
They called god to heal them also learned to identify certain diseases -
1900 BCE
Ancient chinese
The development of acupuncture let us treat illness and disease with stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness cause by nature or spiritual: Illness may have more natural rather than spiritual. Dissection: religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates: base knowledge of anatomy and physiology and external body. -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Sanitation systems: water ways ( bringing water)to the city and sewers where build for waste. Public baths were also added at this time. Organize medical care :
The Romans were the first to have an organize medical care. Also sent medical equipment and physicians with armies and their friends. Hospital development: buildings were hospitals for people to go to when there sick. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
Stoped the study of medical in 500 AD ? Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns. Which stopped the study of medicine How do they treat diseases? With vaccines and medications. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
Epidemics (1100)AD : the epidemics caused millions of deaths with the bubonic plague ( Black Death) killed 60 million people alone. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
Rebirth (1450 AD) Universities: medical schools for research The acceptance of dissection of the body for medical study. Books give us more knowledge and research about the body and illness. -
Period: 1500 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo de Vinci
Leonardo de Vinci :found out how anatomy works -
1550
Gabriele fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
Discovered the Eustachian tube ( a tube that runs from the ear to the throat. -
William Harvey
Understanding of physiology and the circulation of blood like heart pumping. -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope and found tooth decay also how it forms. -
Apothecaries
trading drugs and spices in the east -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discoveries colds and how they spread -
Medical students learning
Medical students are learning anatomy in the body and cures for sickness. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element of oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccine for smallpox -
Rene laennec
Invented the stethoscope ( the first stethoscope was made out of wood) the stethoscope increased the ability to hear lungs and heart. -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignnaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childhood fever(puerperal fever) large numbers of women died from the puerperal fever. -
Florence nightingale
Had an interest in caring for people and gain experience by volunteering in hospitals during the Crimean war. -
Louis Pasteur
Known as the father of microbiology discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere also found out that pasteurization kills bacteria in milk also created a vaccine for rabies. -
Dimitri lvanovski
Discovered that are caused by microorganisms that can only be seen with a microscope. Also discovered that chicken pox’s,measles,rabies and influenza. Was diseases caused by viruses. -
Joseph lister
Learned the discovery that microorganism cause infections. Carbolic acid was used on wounds to kill germs -
Ernst von bergmann
Developed asepsis and did research that germ caused infection in wounds. -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease-causing organisms. Also discovered the development of culture plate method( isolated bacteria) -
Paul ehrlich
Discovered that chemicals can fight to kill disease. Completed 606 experiments to treat syphilis -
Wilhelm roentgen
Discovered the x-ray in 1895 toke the first picture of the x-ray using a hand. -
Freud sigmund
Discovered the conscious and unconscious part of the mind. Studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body. Studied the psychological and psychiatry. -
Ben Carson
Performed on separating Siamese twins also performed hemispherectomies ( surgeries on the brain to stop the brain from seizures) -
Alexander Fleming
Discovered that penicillin kills life threatening bacteria.before penicillin people died form pneumonia,gonorrhea and blood poisoning. Cause there was nothing to fight off the illnesss before. -
Gerhard domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds.(first medication) to kill bacteria. -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Albert Sabin
Discovered using a live polio virus vaccine was more affected. The vaccine is now used today to immunize babies against the disease. -
Jonas Salk
Discovered the polio virus which is a virus that paralyzes thousands of adults and children and attacks the most active people. -
Period: to
Twenty first century
In the twenty first century healthy doesn’t mean just physical health it also means mental too. Also now when you have a surgery’s you go home the same day. Another thing that happened in the 21st century was many vaccines such as the first influenza vaccine in 2003 then the first human papilloma viruses which is a vaccine for cervical cancer. -
Francis cricks and James watsons
Discovered the DNA molecule structure based on the double helix. Also discovered how DNA replicates and how hereditary information is coded on it. They won a Nobel prize in medicine for this discovery. -
Who are physicians
In 2900 BC prisests were physicians who toke care of people -
How did people heal
With physicians and medicines -
Medicines used today
Digitalis : comes from a foxglove plant, taken as a pill to help treat heart conditions. Quinine: bark from a cinchona tree, helps fevers and relieve muscle spasms also helps prevent malaria. Belladonna and atropine :made from poisonous night shade plant that relieve muscle spasms and GI ( gastrointestinal pain ). Morphine: from opium poppy treating severe pain, can be addicting only used when nothing else works.