Balthazor History of Healthcare

By Jayden.ann1
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • Diseases caused by
    3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Exorcises
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Herbs, plants,Digitalis, quinine,belladonna, atropine,morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Accurate health records,they were superstitious, used leeches to heal.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Treat Illness and diseases with stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Research help eliminate superstition and development massage and herbal therapists
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Disease was caused by lack of sanitation, Romans first to organize medical care,
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    Practiced only in convents and monasteries.
  • How do they treat dieseases?
    700

    How do they treat dieseases?

    Prayer and herbal mixtures
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Killed many people.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    Rebirth of learning, university and medical schools were created, dissection of the body for stud, and books were created for study.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes in the female body.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustacheio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat.

  • Willam Harvey

    Used knowledge to understand physicology
  • Antoine Von Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine Von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope

  • Apothecaries

    Flourishing trade in drugs and spices
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Bifocals, found out colds could spread from one person to another.

  • Medical students learning

    Students attended lectures in the classroom, laboratory and also observed patients at the bedside. Dissect and observe
  • Joseph Priestly

    Joseph Priestly

    Discovered the element oxygen.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for small pox.
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Century

  • Ignacio Semmelweis

    Ignacio Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever

  • Florence Nightingale

    founder of modern nursing.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere.

  • Dimitri Ivanovski

    discoverer of viruses, and one of the founders of virology.

  • Joseph Lister

    Discovery that microorganisms cause infections.

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepis

  • Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease causing organisms.

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on diseases causing microorganisms.
  • Wilhelmina Roentgen

    Wilhelmina Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays in 1895.

  • Anesthesia

    Surgery was performed without anesthesia and they would use herbs, hashish and alcohol to relive some of the pain.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compound.

  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis

  • Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine, which was way more effective.

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of dna.

  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant in 1968

  • Ben Carson

    Continues to perform surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.