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Healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive time

  • 3900 BCE

    Important medicines still used today

    Morphine and digitalis
  • 3800 BCE

    Believed disease was caused by

    Supernatural spirits and demons
  • 3700 BCE

    Average life span

    20 years
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • 2900 BCE

    How do they heal

    Called upon the gods
  • 2800 BCE

    Who are physicians? Who was the first?

    Physicians were priests who studied medicine and surgery in temple medical schools. Imhotep may have been the first physician
  • 2700 BCE

    Average life span

    20 to 30 years
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

  • 1600 BCE

    Dissection( beliefs and result)

    Believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body
  • 1500 BCE

    Importance of the whole body

    To treat the whole by curing your spirit
  • 1400 BCE

    Average life span

    20 to 30 years
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

  • Period: 753 BCE to 410

    Ancient romans

  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Is the father of medicine
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy
  • 370 BCE

    Average life span

    25 to 35 years
  • 370 BCE

    Average life span

    25 to 35 years
  • 200 BCE

    Sanitation system

    Created aqueducts to carry clean water to the cites
    Built sewers to carry waste materials away from the cites
    Used filtering systems in public baths to prevent disease
    Drained marshes to reduce the incidence of malaria
  • 100 BCE

    Hospitals

    Early hospitals developed when physicians cared for ill people in their homes
  • 300

    Average life span

    20 to 30 years
  • 400

    Prohibited study of medicine, why?

    Emphasis was placed on saving the soil, and the study of medicine was prohibited
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    How do they treat disease

    Prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illness and disease
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • 850

    Medical universities

    Physicians began to obtain knowledge at medical universities in the 9th century
  • 900

    Pandemic

    A pandemic of the bubonic plague killed 3/4 of the population
  • 910

    Rhazes

    An Arab physician, become known as the Arab Hippocrates
  • 1000

    Average life span

    20 to 35 years
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1401

    Rebirth

    Rebirth of the science of medicine
  • 1425

    Dissection

    Of the body began to allow a better understanding of anatomy and physiology
  • 1450

    Artists

    Used dissection in order to draw the human body more realistically
  • 1475

    Average life span

    30 to 40 years
  • 1501

    Cause of disease

    We’re still not known and many people died from infections and puerperal(childbirth) fever
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th century

  • 1510

    Father of modern surgery

    Ambrose pare a French surgeon
  • 1523

    Gabriel fallopius

    Identified the Fallopian tubes in the female
    Described the tympanic membrane in the ear
  • Average life span

    35 to 45 years
  • Period: to

    17th century

  • William Harvey

    Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart in 1628
  • Anton van leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Made, prescribed, and sold medications
  • Average life span

    35 to 45 years
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Gabriel fahrenhait

    Created the first mercury thermometer
  • James Lind

    Prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent scurvy
  • Edward jenner

    Developed a vaccination for smallpox
  • Average life span

    40 to 50 years
  • Blood transfusion

    First successful blood transfusion was performed on humans by James blundell
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Become the first female physician in United States
  • Florence nightingale

    Was the founder of modern nursing
  • American Red Cross

    Was founded
  • Wilhelm roentgen

    Discovered roentgenograms
  • Average life span

    40 to 60 years
  • Period: to

    19th century

  • Period: to

    20th century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin
  • Open heart surgery

    Was performed by Christian Barnard
  • Transplants

    Liver
    Lung
    Kidney
  • CAT scan

    Computerized axial tomography
  • Test tube baby

    Baby Louise brown
  • Average life span

    60 to 70 years