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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 i -
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
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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.