Medicine through time

• Galen, a prominent physician in ancient Greece, expanded on Hippocrates' theories and developed the concept of the four temperaments, which linked personality traits to bodily fluids.
• Medieval doctors used bloodletting as a treatment for many illnesses, including the Black Death.
• In medieval Europe, people believed that diseases were caused by evil spirits or bad air (miasma).
• The Black Death was caused by bubonic plague bacteria carried by fleas from rats.
• The smallpox vaccine was the first vaccine ever discovered and was made possible through the observation that people who contracted cowpox did not get smallpox.
• The Renaissance saw an increase in knowledge about human anatomy due to advancements such as dissection and microscopy.
• William Harvey discovered that blood circulated around the body rather than being produced by the liver.
• Andreas Vesalius published De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), providing detailed illustrations of the human body based on dissections.
• The Church had significant influence over medical practices during this period.
• Doctors often relied on superstition rather than science when treating patients.
• Bloodletting involved cutting into veins with leeches attached to draw out "bad" blood.
• Bloodletting was commonly practiced as a form of therapy, with leeches being attached to specific areas of the body.
• Jenner tested his theory by injecting an eight-year-old boy named James Phipps with pus taken from a cowpox blister.
• Jenner observed that milkmaids who had been infected with cowpox did not develop smallpox when exposed to it.
• Hippocrates 4 humour?

  5th Century (Bc)
• Galen's theory of opposites?


  2nd century (AD)
• Black death


  1348
• Printing press?


  1440
• 1500


  By this time there was an estimated 1100 hospitals in Britain
• 1536


  Dissolution of the monasteries
• 1543?


  Andreas Vesalius- On the fabric
• On the fabric?


  1543 Andreas Vesalius
• 1628?


  William Harvey- An anatomical account
• Thomas Sydenham?


  1660, 1670
• Royal Society?


  1660
• The great plauge?

  1665
• 1683


  The first observation of Bacteria. “Animalcules”
• The first observation of bacteria?


  1683
• Early 1700?


  Spontaneous generation theory?
• Spontaneous generation theory?

  Early 1700
• 1790


  Edward Jenner- Smallpox vaccines
• Edward Jenner- Smallpox vaccines, 


  1790
• 1800


  The Industrial Revolution
• 1842?


  Edwin Chadwick report
• 1847?


  James Simpson- Chloroform. Anestesia
• 1848?


  The first public health act
• James Simpson- Chloroform


  1847
• 1852?


  Government makes Vaccines compulsory
• First public health act?


  1848
• Government makes vaccines compulsory?

  1852