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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting, -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis- for heart
Quinine- digestion
Belladonna and atropine- digestion
Morphine- pain -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
The Egyptians were the earliest people to keep health records. The priests are the physicians and they use medicines to heal. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
They were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies and is still used today. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
-They were the first to determine that illnesses were natural rather than spiritual.
-Religion costumes did not allow bodies to be dissected
-The father of medicine was Hippocrates -
100
Ancient Romans
-They found that some disease was caused by a lack of sanitation.
-the Roman’s were the first to organize medical care
-This was the start of hospital buildings for the care of the sick -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Why they stopped the study of medicine
They believed life and death were in gods hands -
700
How they treated disease
The primary treatment was prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
This caused millions of deaths -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
The scientists started learning and created medical schools -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabrielle fallopius
She discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Bartolommeo discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
He used his knowledge to understand physiology, and was able to describe the circulation of blood -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
Antoine invented the microscope establishing that there is life smaller that the eye can see -
Apothecaries
These were the early pharmacies, they started in this time -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin discoveries effect us in many ways, they include the bifocals and he also found that cold can be passed from person to person -
Medical students learning
In the learning of medical students learning they would dissect bodies when a patient died and this helped get a better understanding. -
Joseph Priestley
He discovered the element of oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner discovered a method of vaccines for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Rene invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the abuse of childbed fever (puerperal fever) -
Florence nightingale
She attracted well educated, dedicated women to the nightingale school of nursing -
Louis Pasteur
“Father of microbiology” discovered that tiny microorganisms where everywhere -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Joseph Lister
Learned about Pasteur discover that micro organisms cause infection -
Ernst von Bergmann
Developed asepsis -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease causing organisms he developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens -
Paul ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-rays in 1895 -
Anesthesia
Before the nineteenth surgeries were preformed without anesthesia
-the knowledge of anesthesia now are the basis of sage painless surgeries today -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind -
Gerard domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus vaccine -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Preformed the first succesful heart transplant in 1968 -
Ben Carson
Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies -
Period: to
21st century
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Mobile health
The use of digital information that has rapidly increased this century -
Wearable technology for healthcare
Wearing these devices have been on the rise. Very helpful to track fitness goals and heart rates and many more information -
Medication management devices
Medical technology available to the masses. Companion app to keep user information in one place -
3D printing in healthcare
Novel peice of technology which in comes to their healthcare applications. -
Electronic health records
Integrating hospital systems -
Period: to 399 BCE
Ancient Times