Time Period | Thought Process and Key Ideas Brought from these Eras and Civilizations |
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine | Believed disease was caused by sin, emphasis on anatomy & physiology, diet, massage, drugs |
Ancient Egyptians | Associated deities (gods) with health, illness, and death Embalming practices allowed for knowledge of anatomy |
Ancient India | Believed in a cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction Religion allowed secular medicine to be sound and rational |
Ancient China | Medicine focused on disease prevention, 5 methods of treatment, developed smallpox inoculation |
Ancient Greece | Healing temples, basic elements in all animal life and plants were water, based on elements |
Christianity | Constantine founded a hospital in the 4th century, spread of disease & plague through crusades |
Renaissance | Flourishing period Ambroise Pare was a forerunner in clinical surgery |
17th Century | William Harvey found continuous blood circulation was present in a contained body, Hugens developed centigrade system of measuring temperature, Fahrenheit developed system named after him, Malpighi & Leeuwenhoek invention of microscope, Quinine treatment for malaria, da Vinci explored anatomy |
18th Century | Von Haller discovered relationship of brain cortex to peripheral nerves, founder of modern physiologic theory, Hales demonstrated dynamic of blood circulation, capillary system, record blood pressure, Edward Jenner formulated smallpox vaccination |
19th Century | Autopsies major focus of medicine, Virchow professed “all cells come from other cells,” J Marion Sims gynecology, invented catheter, Sims, speculum, Lister discovered bacteria origin, Pasteur formulated germ theory, |
20th Century | Walter Reed discovered yellow fever, 1st artificial kidney, basis of dialysis, eliminated polio |
21st Century | Robot surgeries, genetics and DNA code, electrical system of heart is mapped, WHO, |
Pandemic – infectious disease of global proportions that crosses boundaries, and becomes worldwide
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