HISTORY OF MEDICINES 

Medicine is the field of health and healing. It includes nurses, doctors, and various specialists. It covers diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, medical research, and many other aspects of health. Medicine aims to promote and maintain health and well-being.

Conventional modern medicine is sometimes called allopathic medicine. It involves the use of drugs or surgery, often supported by counseling and lifestyle measures.

Alternative and complementary types of medicine include acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine, art therapy, traditional Chinese medicine, and many more.

MEDICINE TIMESCALE

PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC MEDICINES

• GODS OF MEDICINE
• GREEK- HIPPOCRATES
• EGYPT
• ROMAN MEDICINES
• CLAUDIUS GALEN

Prehistoric humans probably had their first medicinal experiences by eating earth and clays. They may have copied animals, observing how some clays had healing qualities, when animals ingested them. Similarly, some clays are useful for treating wounds.

The bark of the willow tree contains one of the oldest medicinal remedies in human history. In its modern form, we call it aspirin. More than 3,500 years ago, the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians used willow bark as a traditional medicine for pain relief.

MEDIEVAL MEDICINES –STAGE

• MEDIEVAL MEDICINE- DEVELOPMENT
• RENAISSANCE
• BLACK DEATH

Headaches and aching joints were treated with sweet-smelling herbs such as rose, lavender, sage, and hay. A mixture of henbane and hemlock was applied to aching joints. Coriander was used to reduce fever. Stomach pains and sickness were treated with wormwood, mint, and balm.

Their cures were a mixture of superstition (magic stones and charms were very popular), religion (for example driving out evil spirits from people who were mentally ill), and herbal remedies (some of which are still used today). Monks and nuns also ran hospitals in their monasteries, which took in the sick and dying.

The Middle Ages saw many medical innovations, including the development of surgical instruments and techniques. Some physicians even practiced occult healing, believing it had curative powers. They would use spells, charms, incantations, herbal remedies, and potions to heal their patients.

BRITSH- MEDIVAL TO MODERN 

MODERN DEVELOPMENT IN MEDICINES

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  MEDICINE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• POPULATION GROWTH
• PUBLIC HEALTH DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• EDWIN CHADWICK
• DEVELOPMENT OF GERM THEORY
• LOUIS PASTURE
• EDWARD JENNER
• ANTIBIOTIC TIMESCALE
• FLEMING –FLOREY
• JOSEPH LISTER
• PAUL EHRLICK
• A SUSHRUTA
• NHS
• ROENTGEN

  

Modern medicine, or medicine as we know it, started to emerge after the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. Conventional modern medicine is sometimes called allopathic medicine. It involves the use of drugs or surgery, often supported by counseling and lifestyle measures. Alternative and complementary types of medicine include acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine, art therapy, traditional Chinese medicine, and many more

Typically, researchers discover new drugs through New insights into a disease process that allow researchers to design a product to stop or reverse the effects of the disease. Many tests of molecular compounds to find possible beneficial effects against any of a large number of diseases

WOMEN IN THE MEDICAL LINE

WOMEN IN THE MEDICINE LINE

• ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
• MADAM CURIE
• MARIE SEACOLE
• QUESTIONS ON MADAM CURIE
• QUESTIONS ON WOMEN IN THE MEDICAL FIELD

Women have practiced medicine since antiquity even before the professionalization of modern medicine. Be it herbal remedies, alternative medicine, or midwifery, they have proved their natural roles as caregivers time and again, despite more men in the profession since ancient times.

Women who’ve made a difference in the medical field

• Elizabeth Blackwell, MD (1821-1910): A fabulous first.
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD (1831-1895): An African American pioneer.
• Mary Putnam Jacobi, MD (1842-1906): The menstruation myth.
• Ann Preston, MD (1813-1872): In the dean’s office.