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3100 BCE
EGYPT: Surgery
it was vastly advanced. According to the various documents, we have evidence that cataract operations, fractures, wounds, skull trepanations, circumcisions, etc. were already being performed. -
3000 BCE
EGYPT: Anatomical knowledge
The ancient Egyptians learned a lot about human anatomy from their tradition of mummifying. By preparing the dead for their journey to the afterlife, they could see body parts and associate them with the diseases they had suffered while alive. -
3000 BCE
EGYPT: Teeth repair
Performed dental extractions and trepanned the external cortex of the jaw to drain dental abscesses, treated oral inflammations and replaced missing teeth with different systems. -
2000 BCE
EGYPT: Cure with canes or feathers
In ancient Egypt, a well-known form of healing was with the use of special canes and feathers because they thought that there were species of birds with quantitative characteristics -
1685 BCE
EGYPT: Cranial trepanation
the bone fragments extracted from the skull, using them as religious amulets. The sovereigns had the custom of performing trepanation when they were about to die so that their soul could leave their body. -
1500 BCE
EGYPT: Medical papyrus
They are the texts of Ancient Egypt written on papyrus that provide an insight into their medical practices and procedures. The papyri show details about diseases, their diagnosis and the remedies to apply, which include both herbs and surgery and magic spells. -
1460 BCE
EGYPT: Walking aids or prothesis
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50 BCE
ROME: Surgical tools
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162
ROME:Advances of the surgery
But it was not until the Industrial Revolution that the three main obstacles encountered by this medical specialty since its inception were overcome: hemorrhage, pain and infection. -
400
THE MIDDLE AGES: hospitals
Hospitals in medieval times performed a triple function: they treated the sick; They acted as asylums, collecting the needy and also functioned as hostels, as they gave temporary shelter to pilgrims and travelers of modest condition. -
700
THE MIDDLE AGES: dissection
with evidence from at least as early as the 13th century. The practice of autopsy in Medieval Western Europe is "very poorly known" as few surgical texts or conserved human dissections have survived. -
1286
THE MIDDLE AGES: optics
Many well-known names from this time related in some way to optics were monks. In the Middle Ages, having glasses meant having great knowledge. Starting in the 14th century, the construction of lenses to correct sight defects was developed in Europe. -
1306
THE MIDDLE AGES: glasses
They are a combination of two medical devices: the lenses and the frame that the optician or optometrist adapts to a specific patient based on the precise correction of each eye, its interpupillary distance and the frame chosen. -
1500
THE MIDDLE AGE: cesarean section
a type of surgery in which a surgical incision is made in the mother's abdomen and uterus to remove one or more babies. -
1505
THE MIDDLE AGE: quarantine
a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed. -
THE MODERN AGE: anesthesia
insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations. -
THE MODERN AGE: pharmacology
It is the science that studies the history, the origin, the physical and chemical properties, the presentation, the biochemical and physiological effects, the mechanisms of action, the absorption, -
THE MODERN AGE: antibiotics
An antibiotic, considering the etymology, is a chemical substance produced by a living being or synthetic derivative, which kills or prevents the growth of certain classes of sensitive microorganisms -
THE MODERN AGE: the DNA
is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to internal sounds of an animal or human body. -
THE MODERN AGE: stethoscope
is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to internal sounds of an animal or human body.