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4000 BCE
Primitive Times
Herbs and plants were used as medicines. -
4000 BCE
Primitive Times
Treated illness with ceremonies by the tribal witch doctors. -
4000 BCE
Primitive Times
To create holes in the skull trepanation and trephining. -
4000 BCE
Primitive Times
Thought that illness and disease were punishment from the Gods. -
4000 BCE
Primitive Times
Average life span is 20 years. -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Physicians were used for priests. -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
For medical treatment they used bloodletting and/ or leeches. -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Known to maintain health record accurate by the earliest people. -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Magic and medicinal plants were used to treat disease. -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Average life span was 20-30 years. -
1700 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Acupuncture were used by therapies to relieve pain and congestion. -
1700 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Started to search medical reasons for illness. -
1700 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Monitored the pulse to determine the condition of the body. -
1700 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Moxibustion were used to place on skin and then burned and treat the disease. -
1700 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Average life span was 20 to 30 years. -
1350 BCE
Renaissance
Dissection of the human body led to understand anatomy and physiology. -
1350 BCE
Renaissance
Printing press was invented allowed the medical knowledge be shared. -
1350 BCE
Renaissance
Promoted chemical remedies to treat disease by Roger Bacon ( 1214-1294). -
1350 BCE
Renaissance
Rebirth of science of medicine. -
1350 BCE
Renaissance
Average life span was 30-40 years. -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Were to first observe the human body and the effects of disease. -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Massages, art therapy, and herbal treatment by therapies. -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Developed a method to observe the human body. -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Record signs and symptoms of many diseases. -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Average life span was 25 to 35 years. -
800 BCE
Middle Ages
Greeks and Romans medical practices were renewed. -
800 BCE
Middle Ages
Based the diagnose by the signs and symptoms of the diseases. -
800 BCE
Middle Ages
Used the animals gut for structure materials. -
800 BCE
Middle Ages
Propose that the blood was the cause of the many infectious disease. -
800 BCE
Middle Ages
Average life span was 20 to 35 years. -
753 BCE
Ancient Romans
First to discover hospitals. -
753 BCE
Ancient Romans
Built sewers to help carry waste materials away from the cities. -
753 BCE
Ancient Romans
Filtering systems prevent disease in public baths. -
753 BCE
Ancient Romans
To reduce malaria they drained marshes. -
753 BCE
Ancient Romans
Average life span was 25 to 35 years. -
700 BCE
Dark Ages
Study saving the soul and study of medicine were prohibited. -
400 BCE
Dark Ages
Herbal mixtures were mainly the medications. -
400 BCE
Dark Ages
Patients were treated by prayers by the monks and priests. -
400 BCE
Dark Ages
Began after that fall of The Roman Empire. -
400 BCE
Dark Ages
Average life span was 20 to 30 years. -
100 BCE
19th Century
Training formal for nurses began. -
100 BCE
19th Century
Viruses were discovered in 1892 -
100 BCE
19th Century
One microorganism were associated with the disease. -
100 BCE
19th Century
The women's started to become participants in health care. -
100 BCE
19th Century
Average life span 40 to 60 year -
1 BCE
18th Century
Created the first mercury thermometer by Gabriel Fahrenheit( 1686-1736). -
1 BCE
20th Century
It increased the knowledge about the role of blood in the body. -
1 BCE
21st Century
Cells were used in treatment of disease of early in the 2000s. -
1 BCE
18th Century
Scientific surgical procedures and introduce feeding tube by John Hunter( 1728-1793). -
1 BCE
18th Century
Bifocals invented by Benjamin Franklin. -
1 BCE
18th Century
Discovered the element oxygen in 1714 by Joseph Priestly. -
1 BCE
18th Century
Average life span was 40 to 50 years. -
1 BCE
20th Century
Organ Transplants -
1 BCE
20th Century
New machines were developed. -
1 BCE
20th Century
New medications were developed. -
1 BCE
20th Century
Average life span was 40+ years -
1 BCE
21st Century
Vaccine to prevent cancer was approved in 2006. -
1 BCE
21st Century
Te first implantable totally artificial heart was placed in a patient in Louisville, Kentucky in 2001. -
1 BCE
21st Century
In the Netherlands, it was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia in 2002. -
1 BCE
21st Century
Average life span is 73 years. -
1 CE
16th and 17th Centuries
The first vaccination developed. -
1 CE
16th and 17th Centuries
The cause of disease off disease is still unknown. -
1 CE
16th and 17th Centuries
Microscopes were invented to allow physicians to see disease causing organisms. -
1 CE
16th and 17th Centuries
Pharmacies were developed by Apothecaries. -
1 CE
16th and 17th Centuries
Average life span was 35 to 45 years.