Ingles Medico

The first known doctor who "healed the pharaoh's nostrils". Sekhet-eanach. Eber papyrus. Imhotep.

The earliest known medical book. Sekhet-eanach. Eber papyrus. Imhotep.

A famous doctor who workshiped as a god after his death. Sekhet-eanach. Ebers Papyrus. Imhotep.

A famous woman doctor in Egypt. Merit Ptah. Beliefs.

The Egyptians believed the human body was filled with passages that acted like irrigation canals. Merit Ptah. Beliefs. Imhotep.

Ancient Egyptian Medicine. Sekhet- eanach. Ebers Papyrus. Imhotep. Merith Ptah. Asclepius.

A god that people believed would visit them in their sleep to cure them. Asclepius. Hippocrates. Aristotle.

Stressed that doctors should observe patient symptoms and created the Hippocratic Corpus. Asclepius. Hipocrates. Aristotle.

Contributed to the theory that the body was made of four humors (liquids). Asclepius. Hippocrates. Aristotle.

Ancient Greek Medicine. Asclepius. Hippocrates. Aristotle. Merit Ptah.

Theory of the Four Humors. The Theory:. Fever Example:. Treatment:.

Roman Medicine. Hospitals:. Disease Theory:. Medical Schools:.

A man who traveled to Greece in the 9th century to collect Greek medical books. Hunain Ibn Ishaq. Salerno. Caregivers. The Church.

A medical school founded in Italy in the late 11th century. Hunain Ibn Ishaq. Salerno. Caregivers. The Church.

In hospitals, monks or nuns cared for the sick. Hunain Ibn Ishaq. Salerno. Caregivers. The Church.

From the mid-14th century, the Church allowed some dissections of human bodies at medical schools. Hunain Ibn Ishaq. Salerno. Caregivers. The Church.

Dissected human bodies and made accurate drawings. Leonardo Da Vinci. Andreas Vesalius. William Harvey.

The greatest surgeon of the age (1514–1564) who realized many of Galen's ideas were wrong; he published The Fabric of the Human Body in 1543. Leonardo Da Vinci. Andreas Vesalius. William Harvey.

Published his discovery of how blood circulates around the body. Andreas Vesalius. William Harvey. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

Observed microorganisms. William Harvey. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Andreas Vesalius.

First mentioned in 1498. Toothbrush. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. William Harvey.

16th – 17th Century Medicine. Leonardo Da Vinci:. Andreas Vesalius. William Harvey. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Toothbrush. James Lind.

Discovered that fresh fruit or lemon juice could cure or prevent scurvy. James Lind. Edward Jenner. Dominique-Jean Larrey.

Introduced vaccination (derived from the Latin word for cow, vacca). James Lind. Edward Jenner. Dominique-Jean Larrey:.

A Frenchman who created an ambulance service for wounded men. Dominique-Jean Larrey:. Edward Jenner. James Lind.

Invented the stethoscope. Rene Laennec. Louis Pasteur. Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole.

Proved that microscopic organisms caused disease. Louis Pasteur. Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. John Snow.

Two nurses who improved nursing by caring for soldiers during the Crimean War (1853–1856). Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Dominique-Jean Larrey.

Showed that cholera was transmitted by water. John Snow. Edward Jenner. James Lind.

18th – 19th Century Medicine. James Lind , Edward Jenner. Dominique-Jean Larrey , Rene Laennec. Louis Pasteur, John Snow:. Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Alexander Fleming , Christiaan Barnard.

Discovered penicillin. Alexander Fleming. Christiaan Barnard.

Performed the first heart transplant. Alexander Fleming. Christiaan Barnard.

20th – 21st Century Medicine. Alexander Fleming. Christiaan Barnard. Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole.