MEDICINE TIMELINE

SPIRITS B.C. 7000

• Ancient societies used to drill holes in people's heAds to release evil spirits accused of causing sickness

HUMORS B.C. 460-377

• Greek physician Hippocrates hypothesizes that fluids, called humors, cause disease

HERBAL TREATMENTS A.D. 1430-1352

• People start using incense to help cure people who have the Black Death which was a deadly disease carried by rat's fleas

ANATOMY 1400-1600

• People begin to study what is inside your body which is called anatomy

GERM THEORY 1857

• Louis Pasteur hypothesizes that little animals Carry diseases

Antiseptic TREATMENT 1865

• Joseph lister finds cleaning his surgical tools help keep patients healthy

KOCH'S POSTULATES 1883

• Robert Koch proves that pathogens cause diseases buy studying four conditions

Applying Antiseptic TECHNIQUE 1900S

• Cities across the globe start treating their water with chlorine so people don't get sick so much

ANTIBIOTICS 1982

• Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

POLIO VACINE 1955

• Jonas salk's vacine for polio is now available and polio gets eliminated from the U.s. In 1994

NEW DISEASES 2002

• The first case of sars appears in china
• SARS attacks your respiratory system

POLIO COMEBACK 2005

• Global efforts to stop polio have worked but it reemerges and infects less than ten people in the U.s.

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