500-323 BC
Ancient greece
23 BC - 476 AD
Roman Empire
476-1450 AD
Middle ages
1400-1600 AD
Renaissance
1650-1800 AD
Birth of Modern Medicine
1800s-1900s
Sanitary Awakening
1900 AD-Onwards
Modern Public Health
Ancient Greeks
Ancient greeks
Father of Western Medicine
Hippocrates
imbalance in the human body
Disease
to balance the 4 humours
Food
What are the 4 humors
disease caused by an imbalance between man and his environment
Naturalistic Concept
Roman empire
coined the term epidemic and endemic
Hippocrates
Roman empire
down fall of the roman empire
dark ages
Middle ages
Bubonic plague
period of exploration
renaissance
taken from the title of
Alfred W. Crosby’s in 1972
The Columbian Exchange
Columbian Exchange’s three categories
Slavery, exchange of diseases
between the old and new world
Negative Impact