The History of Medicine

Embalming

3200 BC

The ancient Egyptians developed a way of preserving bodies so that they would look lifelike. This process was called embalming. The process consisted of drying the body in a natural salt called natron, then rubbing oils onto the skin. After the body was embalmed it was wrapped in linen strips to protect it and keep it together.

Hippocrates

500 BC

He is and acicent greek physican who is known as the Father of Medicine. The Hippocratic Oath was written by Hippocrates and the modern version says,"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow."

Public Hospitals

400 AD

One of the very first hospitals for the public was started in Rome. They were some of the first people to organize medical care. And fun fact the hospital was a room in a doctors house.

Schola Medica Salernitana

The first Medical School in the world was started during the renaissance period.

1100

The First Anatomy of the Human Body

1600

The Vitruvian Man (Italian: L'uomo vitruviano) originally known as Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio, lit. 'The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius') is a drawing made by the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

William Harvey

1628

He made the momentous medical discovery that the flow of blood must be continuous and that its flow must be in one direction only. This discovery sealed his place in the history of medicine.

Anton van Leeuwekhoek

• He invented the microscope and was one of the first people to observe microorganisms.

1676

Benjamin Franklin

1784

• Invented bifocals because he suffered from presbyopia, a condition that means "age of sight" and that makes it harder for the eye to adjust to seeing objects at different distances as one ages.

Edward Jenner

• He discovered the Smallpox Vaccination and ultimately saved a lot of people.

1796

Jonas Salk

• Discovered that a killed polio virus that would cause immunity to polio

1953

Louis Pasteur

1861

• Discovered that microorganisms cause disease otherwise known as the germ theory of communicable disease.

Joseph Lister

• He was the first doctor to use antiseptics during surgery, he found an effective antiseptic in carbolic acid, which had already been used as a means of cleansing foul-smelling sewers and had been empirically advised as a wound dressing .

1865

Robert Koch

• He is the father of Microbiology and used Louis Pasteur theory to identify the germs causing TB.

1882

Wilhelm Roentgen

• Discovered and invented X-Rays

1895

Alexander Fleming

• He was a Scottish researcher, who discovered penicillin

1928

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