Blaser History Of Healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to

    Early Beginnings

  • Medicines Used Today
    3600 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Quinine, Morphine, Digitalis
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records: Egyptians were the fastest people to keep health records.
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    The first people to discover and use acupuncture therapies.
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    The Greeks where the ones making the medicines and watched the people closely that took the medicine to see if they had any side effects after taking the medicine.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Romans where the first ones to do medical care and to help anyone before hospitals were invented.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

    The church believes in life and anyone who died was in gods hands.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

    Epidemics were caused by many dying in the Middle Ages.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

    They did literature and arts.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Artist and engineer.
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered and named parts of the human body.
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    He discovered descriptions of the body parts.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    He was the first to discover the full circulation of blood in the body.
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    He discovered both protist and bacteria.
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    The people who made and gave medicines to people.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin was known for the one doing the experiments.
  • Medical students learning

    All the learning was done by the medical state of knowledge so nothing that was really over the top type of knowledge.
  • Joseph Priestley

    He discovered Oxygen.
  • Edward Jenner

    He made the vaccination for cowpox so more people didn’t get sick.
  • Rene Laennec

    He invented the stethoscope.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    He discovered the cases of people that got sick.
  • Florence Nightingale

    She was a British nurse and was the founder of modern nursing.
  • Louis Pasteur

    He was one of the most important chemists. (He was a qualified chemist.)
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    He discovered viruses.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    He was the one to find ways to prevent infections on people.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    He practiced surgery and also introduced sterilization.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    He discovered tuberculosis bacterium.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    He worked on trying to show peoples body immunity and also worked in chemotherapy.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    He discovered X-Rays.
  • Anesthesia

    Used for procedures to prevent pain from happening.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    He discovered Penicillin.
  • Sigmund Freud

    He invented and helped develop psychoanalysis.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk

    Used mice to show that there can be bacteria poisoning.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    He discovered and also developed the first working polio vaccine.
  • Albert Sabin

    He developed vaccines for people that had a sleeping illness. (Encephalitis)
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    They both discovered DNA.
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    He led the team that preformed the first human to human heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    He lead the neurosurgeon team that consisted of 70 members.