Davis history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • Treatments for sick?
    3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    A tribal doctor cut out a part of the cranium
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today?

    Digitalis - used to treat heart conditions.
    Quinine - controls a fever and relieves muscle spasms
    Belladonna and atropine - relieve muscle spasms, especially in gastrointestinal pain

    morphine - treats severe pain
  • 3000 BCE

    Diseases caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • Ancient Egyptians
    2999 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    they were the earliest people to keep health records and the priests were the physicians they used medicine to heal diseases, learned how to splint fractures and used blood letting.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    the ancient Chinese were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies. They learned to treat a variety of illnesses and diseases with stone tools.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    they were the first to study the cause of diseases and to determine that illnesses may natural, rather than spiritual causes. Dissection was prohibited during ancient times. Hippocrates based his knowledge of anatomy and physiology on observation of the external body.
  • Ancient Romans
    100

    Ancient Romans

    They brought clean water to their cities by aqueducts and built sewers to carry off waste. They sent medical equipment and physicians in armies to care for wounded soldiers. The physician kept rooms in their house open for the ill. This was the beginning of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Why stop the study of medicine?

    church believed that life and death were in gods hands.
  • How do they treat diseases?
    700

    How do they treat diseases?

    herbal mixtures and cared for patients. The primary treatment was prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    millions of people died from the “Black Death” and other uncontrolled diseases
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth
    1450

    Rebirth

    The building of universities and medical schools for research began. The acceptance of dissection of the body also began. Printing books and publishing them for the allowance of access to knowledge.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Vinci studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    discovered fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

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

    William Harvey

    He was able to describe the circulation of blood.
  • Antonio von leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    These apothecaries engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin franklin

    he found out colds could be passed from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning

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

    Discovered the element oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for small pox
  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz semmelweis

    Identified the case of childbed fever
  • Florence nightingale

    Treated dying soldiers and became a legend because of her dedication to nursing
  • Louis Pasteur

    The father of microbiology. Discovered that tiny microorganisms are everywhere.
  • Dimitri ivanovski

    Discovered some diseases are caused by microorganisms
  • Joseph lister

    Joseph lister

    Learned about Pasteur’s discovery that microorganisms cause infections
  • Ernst von bergmann

    Developed asepsis (a method to keep an area germ free)
  • Robert Koch

    Discovered many diseases causing organisms
  • Paul ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on diseases
  • Wilhelm roetgen

    Discovered x-rays
  • Anesthesia

    before anesthesia, they would do surgeries while patients were awake or they would choke them to cause them to go unconscious so they felt no pain during the procedure
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the unconscious and conscious parts of the mind
  • Gerard domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds. First effective medicines in killing bacteria
  • Jonas Salk

    Found that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus to immunize babies against a dreaded disease
  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Francis crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA
  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Separates Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures
  • Medicine advancements

    1. Patients are being taught about self care
    2. Nurses are visiting patients at home
    3. Doctors are practicing telemedicine (treatment services)
    4. Supplying health providers faster
    5. Greater opportunities for communication with patients
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Period: to 399

    Ancient times