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Evolution of medicine - Coggle Diagram
Evolution of medicine
19th Century Medical Advances
Germ theory: Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch
Anesthesia (1846): Ether & Chloroform
Antiseptics: Joseph Lister
Florence Nightingale: Modern nursing
20th Century Breakthroughs
Antibiotics: Penicillin (Alexander Fleming, 1928)
Vaccines: Polio, MMR, etc.
Imaging: X-rays, CT, MRI
DNA discovery: Watson & Crick (1953)
21st Century Modern Medicine
Precision medicine & genomics
Minimally invasive surgery
AI in diagnostics
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines
Hippocratic Tradition (460–370 BCE)
Hippocrates: "Father of Medicine"
Natural causes of disease
Galenic Medicine (129–200 CE)
Roman physician Galen
Humoral theory (Blood, Phlegm, Yellow & Black bile)
Islamic Golden Age (8th–13th century)
Avicenna (Ibn Sina): "The Canon of Medicine"
Al-Razi (Rhazes): Clinical observation
Renaissance & Scientific Revolution (15th–17th century)
Andreas Vesalius: Human anatomy
Paracelsus: Chemical medicine
18th Century Enlightenment
Focus on reason & empirical evidence
Edward Jenner (1796): Smallpox vaccine