Friendshuh History of Healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treats for sick?

    prayer, excercism, blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis: heart medicine Quinine: controls fever, relieve muscle spasm, and helps prevent malaria. Belladonna and atropine: relieve muscle spasm Morphine: used to treat severe pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    They were superstitious and called upon the gods to heal them. Priest Used medicine to heal diseases, learned how to splinter fractures, and treated disorders.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    treated a variety of illnesses and diseases
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    illness have natural not spiritual causes. Body’s were not allowed to be dissected. Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called the Oath of Hippocrates.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Romans created a sanitation system because they found some of the diseases were caused by lack of sanitation. The Romans sent medical equipment with their army’s to care for the wounded soldiers. Once hospitals became public buildings, the care for the sick was established.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    The monks and priests had no interest in how the body functioned.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    Scientists have discovered vaccines and medications to control diseases.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • Leonardo de Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo de Vinci

    He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • Gabrielle Fallopius
    1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    He discovered the Fallopian Tubes of the female anatomy.
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    He discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    He used his knowledge to understand physiology and he described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.
  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    He invented the microscope.
  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies started selling drugs and spices.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    He discovered bifocals and he found colds can be passed from person to person.
  • Medical Students

    Medical Students

    There was a new way of teaching medicine. Students would attend lectures, laboratory, and observed patients at the bedside.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    He discovered the element oxygen. He also observed that plants refresh air that has lost its oxygen, making it usable for respiration.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    He discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox.
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    He invented the stethoscope.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of child fever.
  • Florence Nightingale

    Attracted well, educated dedicated women to care for soldiers dying from cholera.
  • Louis Pasteur

    known as “The Father of Microbiology” discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope.
  • Joseph Lister

    He learned about Pasteur’s discovery that microorganisms cause infection.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    He developed asepsis.
  • Robert Koch

    He discovered many diseases causing organisms.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    He discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganism.
  • Wilhelmina Roentgen

    He discovered x-rays.
  • Anesthesia

    Nurses used herbs, hashish and alcohol to help relieve pain during surgery.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    He found that penicillin killed life-threading ening bacteria.
  • Sigmund Freud

    He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain.
  • Sigmund Freud

    He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    He discovered sulfonamide compounds.
  • Jonas Salk

    He discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • Artificial intelligence

    It helps with transforming diagnostics, drug discovery, and treatment planning.
  • Albert Sabin

    He was the first person to use a live polio virus vaccine.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    They discovered the molecular structure of the DNA.
  • Christian Barnard

    He performed the first ever successful heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    He continues to be a pioneer in serpsrating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, surgery’s on the brain to stop seizures.
  • Period: to

    5 Advancements in Medicines

  • HPV vaccine

    This vaccine help prevent HPV related cancers.
  • Targeted Cancer Therapies (Gleevec)

    This drug targets cancer cells in chronic myeloid leukemia.
  • Artificial Intelligence

    It helps with transforming diagnostics, drug discovery, and treatment planning.
  • CRISPR gene editing

    This allows scientists to precisely edit DNA, letting them correct genetic that cause diseases.
  • Artificial Organs

    They are meant to mimic the shape and size of the real organ.