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Medicine

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

SPIRITS

  • Ancient society's drilled holes into people's heads to release the evil spirits believed to cause diseases.
  • 7,000 B.C.

HUMORS

  • Greek physician Hippocrates hypothesized that fluids called humors caused disease.
  • 460-370 B.C.

HERBAL TREATMENTS

  • People used incense to help cure people with Black Death.
  • Black Death is a bacteria.
  • 1330-1352
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ANATOMY

  • People began to study anatomy.
  • People started to draw pictures of the anatomy.
  • 1400-1600
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GERM THEORY

  • Louis Pasteur hypothesized that disease is caused by small animals.
  • Those small animals are bacteria.
  • 1857
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ANTISEPTIC TECHNIQUE

  • Joseph lister finds that cleaning his surgical tools reduces patient infections.
  • When you use infected tools it could spread diseases.
  • 1865
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KOCH'S POSTULATES

  • Robert Koch finds four conditions that prove a pathogen causes a disease.
  • 1883
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APPLYING ANTISEPTIC TECHNIQUE

  • Cities around the world start filtering drinking water.
  • Doing this reduces that cases of cholera.
  • 1900
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ANTIBIOTICS

  • Alexander Fleming discovers antibiotics.
  • Antibiotics are meant to kill bacteria.
  • 1928
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POLIO VACCINE

  • Jonas salk's vaccine for polio became available.
  • The disease was eliminated in the United States in 1994.
  • 1955
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NEW DISEASES

  • New disease called spars was discovered.
  • It affects the respiratory system.
  • 2002
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POLIO COMEBACK

  • The world is trying to vaccinate everybody with polio.
  • Polio virus comes back into America.
  • 2005
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