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3900 BCE
Disease Caused by?
super natural spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick?
Ceremonies -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis is used for heart medication
Quinine helps fever along with Belladonna and atropine helps muscle spasms
Morphine helps with pain -
Period: 3000 BCE to 4000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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Period: 2999 BCE to
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Earliest people to have health records
Priests we're physicians
They used medicine to heal -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Used stone tools to treat illness -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
First to say illness was natural not spiritual
Did not allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics -
100
Ancient Romans
Discovered sewers and made baths with filtration
Sent medical help to soldiers and helped the sick
Physicians were paid by the government -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
stopped the study of medicine, why?
Conquered by Huns -
700
How do they treat disease?
Prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Bubonic plague, small pox, diphtheria -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
They built universities and medical schools for research
Finally accepted dissection
Printing press, publishing of medical books -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered Eustachian tube -
William Harvey
First to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
Period: to
18th Century
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Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Period: to
21st Century