1. Medicine Past and Present

2. Black Plague
The Black Plague swept across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It killed almost 75,000,000 people!

3. Hippocrates Father of Medicine Believed the human body is predictable
Diseases have reasonable explanations
Believed that people could understand the way the body worked.

4. Anton van Leeuwenhoek microscope 1674 made a powerful microscope
Discovered many types of microbes
microbes

5. 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.

6. Edward Jenner 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

7. 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.

8. Joseph Lister Scottish surgeon and friend of Luis Pasteur
Sterilized all his
equipment
Disinfected wounds with
carbolic acid to kill germs

9. Alexander Fleming Discovered mold killed bacteria Substance was
penicillin the
first antibiotic