History of health care

By benshaw123
  • Primitive times
    4000 BCE

    Primitive times

    people belived that illness and disease were caused by supernatural spirits and demons.
  • Ancient Greeks
    1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    The greeks began modern medical science by observing the human body and effects of disease
  • Renaissance
    1350

    Renaissance

    Rebirth of the science of medicine
  • 16th and 17th Centuries
    1500

    16th and 17th Centuries

    Causes of disease were still unknown, but they improved treatment of fractures, promoted use of artificiallimbs, and average life span was 35 to 45 years
  • 18th Century

    18th Century

    Established scientific surgical procedures, introduced tube feeding, Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals for glass, and life span is expanded to 40 to 50 years
  • 19th Century/1800-1832

    19th Century/1800-1832

    medical school in London was founded, first federal vaccination was enacted, and the Cholera pandemic broke out
  • 19th century/1822-1899

    19th century/1822-1899

    Louis pasteur contributed to discoveries like, pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria, creating a vaccine for rabies in 1885, and proving that microorganisms. Vaccine for diphtheria discover in 1894, and average life span was 40 to 60 years
  • 20th century/spanish flu

    20th century/spanish flu

    the Spanish flu was a pandemic that killed more than 40 million people
  • 20th century/Penicillin

    20th century/Penicillin

    Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928
  • 20th century/ first kidney transplant

    20th century/ first kidney transplant

    Joseph murray performed the first successful kidney transplant in humans in 1954
  • 20th century/ first liver transplant

    20th century/ first liver transplant

    The first liver transplant was done in 1963 by Thomas Starzl
  • 20th century/First lung transplant

    20th century/First lung transplant

    First Lung transplant was in 1964 and was performed by James Hardy
  • 20th century/First hospice

    20th century/First hospice

    The first hospice was founded in England in 1967
  • 20th century/Vaccine for chicken pox

    20th century/Vaccine for chicken pox

    The vaccine for chicken pox was approved in 1995
  • 20th century/HIPAA

    20th century/HIPAA

    President Clinton approved HIPAA laws in 1996
  • 20th century/sheep was cloned

    20th century/sheep was cloned

    The first sheep was cloned in 1997
  • 21st century/Abortion pill

    21st century/Abortion pill

    The FDA approved the use of an abortion pill in 2000
  • 21st century/First face transplant

    21st century/First face transplant

    The first face transplant was performed in France in 2005
  • 21st century/First artifical ovary

    21st century/First artifical ovary

    The first artifical ovary was created in 2010
  • 21st century/First case of Ebola in US

    21st century/First case of Ebola in US

    The CDC declared the first case of Ebola in the US in 2014