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Medical History
3,500 BCE

Primitive Times
thought that drilling holes in peoples heads released evil spirits

3,000 BCE

Egyptians
Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records

1,600 BCE

Chinese
Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion

500 BCE

Romans
Began public health and sanitation systems using aqueducts

470 BCE

Hippocrates
known as the The father of medicine and he created the Oath of Hippocrates

300 BCE

Ancient Greeks

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developed an organized method to observe the human body, recorded signs and
symptoms of many diseases

400

Dark Ages
Pandemic of bubonic plague killed millions of people

Aug 24th, 0860

Rhazes
began the use of animal gut for suture material

Aug 24th, 1400

Renaissance
rebirth of science and medicine, dissection of the body allowed for better understanding of
anatomy and physiology

Aug 24th, 1506

Leonardo da Vinci
Artist who used dissection to draw the human body

Aug 24th, 1628

William Harvey
first known to describe in detail the circulation of blood to and from the heart-

Aug 24th, 1714

Gabrial Fahrenheit
invented the first mercury thermometer

Aug 24th, 1776

Edward Jenner

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discovered the vaccination for smallpox

Aug 24th, 1784

Benjamin Franklininvented bifocals and glasses

Aug 24th, 1860

Florence Nightengale
Founder of modern nursing

Aug 24th, 1861

Dorthea Dix
worked to help the mentally ill

Aug 24th, 1862

Louis Pasteur
Invented a way to get rid of bacteria in liquid by boiling it and then cooling it in

Aug 24th, 1865

Joseph Lister
a surgeon who introduced new principles of cleanliness during surgery to prevent infections
in 1865

Aug 24th, 1881

Clara Barton
Founded the American Red Cross

Aug 24th, 1882

Robert Koch

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created the culture plate method to identify pathogens. In 1882 he isolated the bacteria that
causes tuberculosis

Aug 24th, 1890

Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, a treatment of mental disorders through
dialogue.

Aug 24th, 1892

Gregory Mendel
discovered the basic principles of heredity

Aug 24th, 1895

William Roentgen
discovered x-rays

Aug 24th, 1910

Marie Curie
isolated radium

Aug 24th, 1918

Influenza (flu) pandemic,

killed more than 21 million people

Aug 24th, 1932

Sir Alexander Flemming

discovered penicillin

Aug 24th, 1952

Jonas Salk

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created vaccine for polio using dead

Aug 24th, 1967

christian barnard
First successful heart transplant

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