DEFINITION

HYSTORICAL BACKGROUND

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

NORMAL FUNCTIONDISEASE

IMMUNOLOGY

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND• Immunis. Rome• Thucydides, Plague of Athens.• Al-Razi, Kitab fi al-jadari wa-al-hasbah.• Four humors, Hipocrates.• Miasma theory, Cholera, Black Plague.• Louis Pasteur.• Venoms: Mithridates, Renaissance, Rouxe Yersin• Immunization: Chinese, India, Ottoman Empire,

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Jenner, Pasteur.

DEFINITION• Science• Biology• Medicine• Molecular and cellular components• Immune system• Defense of the body• Intruders • Memory

Immune SystemInnate Immune

SystemNatural barriers

Humor

alInflammation

Comple

ment system

CellularLeucocytes

Acquired Immune System

Humoral

Antibodies

Cellular

TC

BC

Organs of the system

Bone marrow

Thymus

Spleen

Lymphoid tissue

Mucous membranes

Healthy immune systemPhysical

Chemical

Developmental immunology

Genetics

Diagnostic immunology

Evolutionary immunology

DiseasesClassical immunology

Immunity

Body systems

Pathogens

Clinical immunologyImmunodeficiency

AutoimmunityHypersensitivities

Immunotherapy

Immunization

IMPORTANCE• Defense of the body• Infectious diseases• Hygienic theory autoimmune

diseases• Pharmacology• Chronic diseases• Research on biology

CONCLUSION