Bohm History of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginning

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases cause by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Doctors performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    Digitalis; pill form and is a treatment for heart conditions. Quinine; controls fevers, relieve muscle spasms, and prevents malaria. Belladonna and atropine; relieve muscle spasms, especially (GI) pain. Morphine; treats severe pain, it is an addiction medicine.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health Records; they were superstitious and called upon gods to heal them. Who are physicians; the priests. How did they heal; they used medicine, bloodclotting with leaches, drain blood.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese 1900

    Development of acupuncture; treat illness and disease with stone tools, and their practice advance to Chinese acupuncture still used today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient greeks

    Illness cause nature vs spiritual; they discovered that it may have natural, rather than spiritual causes. Dissection; religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates; they did the research and wrote the oath of Hippocrates by recording things.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    sanitations systems; they got clean water, built sewers, and public baths. organize medical care; they were the first to organize the medical and patients. hospital development; the woman physicians specific room for the patients.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medics, why?

    They believed life and dealth was all in gods hand
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    Herbal mixtures and care was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths, other diseases such as smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    universities and medical schools; for research. Dissection of the body; study. books; allowing greater access to knowledge from research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • Gabrielle fallopius
    1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Used knowledge to understand physiology and was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the east.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin franklin

    Discovered bifocals and he found that colds could be pasted from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    When a person died, the students were able to dissect and explore the body
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen, he also observed that plants refresh air that has lost it oxygen, making it usable for respiration
  • Edward jenner

    Edward jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene laennec

    Rene laennec

    Invented the stethoscope, increased the ability to get the heart and lungs
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence nightingale

    Florence nightingale

    Attracted well-educated, dedicated woman to the nightingale school of nursing
  • Ignacio semmelwies

    Ignacio semmelwies

    Identified the cause of childbed fever
  • Louis pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere, and found that they cause disease
  • Dmitri ivanovski

    Discovered some diseases are caused by micro-organisms
  • Joseph lister

    Discovered that micro-organisms cause infections
  • Ernst von bergmann

    Developed asepsis
  • Robert koch

    discovered many disease- causing organisms
  • Paul ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing miscro-organisms
  • Wilhelm roentgen

    Discovered the x-ray
  • Anesthesia

    Surgery was preformed on patients without anesthesia. Early physicians used herbs, hashish, and alcohol to help relieve the pain of surgery.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    found that penicillin killed life-treatening bacteria.
  • Sigmund frued

    Discovered the conscious an unconscious parts of the mind.
  • Gerhard domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds
  • Jonas salk

    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Albert sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine
  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA
  • Christian barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben carson

    Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures
  • Medical enhancements

    1. RNA vaccine
    2. Targeted cancer therapies and immunotherapy
    3. Expansion of telemedicine and wearable health technology
    4. Ai intelligence
    5. Nurses have been visiting them at Homes
  • Period: to

    21st century