HOH - History of Western Medicine Flashcards
who were the fore-runners of todays skilled surgeons?
Medieval barbers
who laid the foundatioins for modern diagnostic techniques?
the ancient greeks
who was the first to perform dissections of human body to learn how it works?
Leonardo da Vinci
8000 BC =
Prehistoric Medicine
2000BC
Ancient Egyptian Medicine
400BC-300AD
Greeks and romans
500-1400
middle ages
700-1500
Arabic Medicine
1400-1700
the renaissance
1700-1900
18th and 19th centuries
1900-2000
20th century
2000-2010
21st century
cave paintings and symbolic artefacts suggest the earliest humans believed in
spirits and supernatural forces
the first doctors were specialized individuals who were thought to be able to contact the spirit world and seek their guidance when they entered mysterious trances and would call upon the spirits to bring good hunting or heal the sick
shamen
8000 BC - Prehisoric Medicine: used to dispense the first medicines as they knew eating ___ ___ could treat sickness
special plants
8000BC: prehistoric medicine - holes in the skull to allow the spirits to leave a sick person
trepanning
8000BC: prehistoric medicine - trepanning was prevalent in the
south pacific, europe, north and south america
2000BC: egyptian medicine - the ____ ____ was believed to cause or cure diseases and priests played a large part in egyptian medicine
goddess Sekhmet
2000BC: egyptian medicine - healing was dominated by ____ ____
religious beliefs
2000BC: egyptian medicine - doctors were often ____ who communicated with the Gods and spirits
Gods
2000BC: egyptian medicine - ointments, inhalers, pills, potions were made using ___ material
plant
2000BC: egyptian medicine - the one who walked in peace
imhotep
2000BC: egyptian medicine - medical papers were found on this type of paper
papyrus
2000BC: egyptian medicine - detailed records of the symptoms and treatments of illnesses and can be called th ___ ___ ___
first medical textbooks
2000BC: egyptian medicine - embalmers removed body organs and carefully preserved them in jars and buried with ____ bodies
mummified
2000BC: egyptian medicine - mummification indicated that they had detailed ____ of the internal structure of the body
knowledge
400BC to 300AD: Greeks and romans - god of disease and healing
apollo
400BC to 300AD: Greeks and romans - fifth century replaced by
asclepius
400BC to 300AD: Greeks and romans - symbols of medical profession
staff and holy snake
400BC to 300AD: Greeks and romans - greek physicians are more ____ and so leart through apprenticeship to a master
craftsmen
the most famous greek philosopher and is the father of modern medicine
Hippocrates