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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
Medicines still used today- digitalis, quinine, belladonna, atropine, morphine -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE
Ancient times
Ancient Roman’s, Greeks, and Egyptians started to develop acupuncture, dissections, sanitation systems, and hospital development, Hippocrates -
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18th century doctors
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Old medical tools
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People started to realize that the foods you eat effect your health
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In the 21st century a lot of medical things are all online
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Old medical drawings
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Middle age medicine
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20th century medical school
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Old drawing of a dissection
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Drawing of the human body
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Old picture of one of the many medical building established
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Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
Bloodletting was common, along with herbal remedies, plasters for skin and regimens that included fasting, rest and dietary changes. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
Epidemics were established. Epidemics is an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical illustrations were the first to record the macroscopic anatomy of the human body
Gabriele Fallopius discovered and named numerous parts of the human body
Bartolommeo Eustachio discoveries include a detailed description of the suprarenal glands, of the bones of the middle ear, the tube that connects the middle ear to the pharynx, the structure that bears his name -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th century (continued)
In 1628, the English physician William Harvey announced a revolutionary theory stating that blood circulates repeatedly throughout the body
Antoine Von Leeuwenhoek is known as the father of microbiology
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18th century
Benjamin Franklin launched the first American medical school.
Edward Jenner, a country physician, invented vaccination with cowpox to replace the fearful dangers of inoculation with smallpox.
To avoid putting his ear on a female patient's chest in order to hear her heartbeat, a French doctor named Rene Laennec created the first version of the stethoscope by rolling up a paper tube and using it as a funnel. -
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18th Century (continued)
At the beginning of the 1800s, the medical field was a male-dominated field where not all doctors were professionally trained. Many doctors in rural areas went through apprenticeships instead of attending medical school
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19th and 20th centuries
Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics.
Florence Nightingale is revered as the founder of modern nursing. Her substantial contributions to health statistics are less well known. She first gained fame by leading a team of 38 nurses to staff an overseas hospital of the British army during the Crimean War
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19th and 20th century (continued)
Wilhelm Roentgen was a German physicist who produced electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays
By the end of the 19th century general anaesthetics were accepted
Sir Alexander Fleming is best known for discovering the world's first effective antibiotic, which he named penicillin
Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis
Gerard Domagk is credited with the discovery of sulfonamidochrysoidine for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in medicine -
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19th and 20th century (continued)
Dimitri Ivanovski was a founder of virology
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare
Ernst von Berrgmann was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery
Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist
Paul Ehrlich is an American biologist known for his predictions about the consequences of population growth -
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19th and 20th century (continued)
Jonas Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines
James Watson co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule
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21st century
Advances in and development:
Telehealth and Mobile Health
Electronic Health Records
Wearable Technology for Healthcare
Medication Management Devices
3D Printing in Healthcare