Gossen history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Preformed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits.
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis is now used to treat heart conditions and is given by pill form, intravenously, or by injections. Quinine is used to control fever, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria. Belladonna and atropine they help relieve muscle spasms in gastrointestinal pain. Morphine treats severe pain
  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    They were the earliest people to keep health records. Physicians used medicines to heal diseases and they also learned the art of splinting. They healed by using bloodletting.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    They were the first people to use acupuncture to treat diseases and they did this by using stone tools.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greek

    Physicians were the first to study causes of disease and they determined that disease comes from a natural cause rather than a spiritual cause. In the accident time the religion did not allow people to dissect bodies. Hippocrates was the father of medicine and he studied the external body which then later the Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called the oath of Hippocrates.
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    They created sanitation systems by brining clean water into their cities along with building filtering systems. They were the first to have organized medical care and they did this by sending medical and equipment with physicians with the army. Roman physicians kept a room in their house for the ill which was the start of hospitals.
  • 500

    Stoped the study of medicine due to the fact that the church’s believed life and death was in gods hands

  • 700

    Primary treatment was done through prayers along with herbal mixtures

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths
  • 1450

    Rebirth

    The building of universities and medical schools for research. Dissection became accepted. As printing came out they started printing books to allow larger access to knowledge.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

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

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartlolommeo Eustachio

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

    William Harvey

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

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Prepared and sold medicine
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered colds can be passed from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    Students attended lectures to learn along with observing patients by the bed side
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever
  • Florence Nightinglae

    Florence Nightinglae

    Established the first nursing school
  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere
  • Dimitri Lvanovski

    First discovered the virus
  • Joseph Lister

    Used carbolic acid on wounds to kill gems and was also the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease causing organisms also developed the culture plate method
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays
  • Anesthesia

    First discovered anesthesia
  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds. First medications affective in killing bacteria
  • Jonas salk

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

    Used a live polio virus vaccine to immunize babies against this disease
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered molecular structure of dna
  • Christian Barnard

    Preformed the first successful heard transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Pioneer in separating signees twins and preforming surgery on the brain to stop seizures
  • The human microbiome project

    Learned about microbial communities that live in and on the bodies along with what they do with health and disease
  • Artificial ovary

    Brown university researchers created the first artificial ovary
  • Artificial pancreas

    Automated system to help blood glucose levels along with delivering insulin
  • Gene editing

    Gene editing started scientists were able to modify DNA sequences
  • Personalized drugs and 3D printed drugs

    Doctors customized drug dosages and created more forms of dosage