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Medicine Past and Present powerpoint by Michelle Nunes Don Gaspar de Portola School. Black Plague. The Black Plague swept across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It killed almost 75,000,000 people!. Hippocrates. Father of Medicine Believed the human body is predictable
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MedicinePast and Presentpowerpoint byMichelle NunesDon Gaspar de Portola School
Black Plague • The Black Plague swept across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It killed almost 75,000,000 people!
Hippocrates • Father of Medicine • Believed the human body is predictable • Diseases have reasonable explanations • Believed that people could understand the way the body worked.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek microscope • 1674 made a powerful microscope • Discovered many types of microbes microbes
William Harvey Discovered that blood in human and animal bodies doesn’t just sit there it circulates, all through the body. The heart is the pump that makes it move.
Sure that diseases had natural • causes. • Guessed that the body developed some means to fight • the disease. • Guessed that once the body • developed antibodies to cowpox • they would be able to fight off • smallpox. Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteure • Had to prove that living things • did not come from nonliving • things which many believed. • Began conducting experiments • on animals with anthrax. • Pasture was able to develop • a vaccine for anthrax.
Joseph Lister • Scottish surgeon and • friend of Luis Pasteur • Sterilized all his • equipment • Disinfected wounds with • carbolic acid to kill germs
AlexanderFleming • Discovered • mold killed • bacteria • Substance was • penicillin the • first antibiotic