History of Healthcare

By 28kabarber
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease cause

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Treatments
    Prayer,Blood letting,
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Medicine used today
    Digitalis-for heart
    Quinine-digestion
    Belladonna and atropine-digestion
    Morphine-pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Health Records- Accurate -Physicians learn to identify diseases and discover ways to heal them. Medicine
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Methods developed over time to what we now use today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Caused by nature- Germs or lack of sanitation
    Caused spiritual-kept records to tell if it was by supernatural forces Did not allow dissection Based off of knowledge on anatomy
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Brought clean water to cities and sewers for waste Sent medical equipment to armies for soldiers with wounds Roman physicians created a room in their house to take care of sick people
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 600

    Medicine

    Medicine
    They believed that death was held in gods hands and he would decide peoples death Discovered vaccines and medications
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Cause of many deaths
    -Plague
    -smallpox
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities and researching schools were created Dissection was accepted Book access for research
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th century

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Recorded and practiced the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes of female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat

  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
    -established “There is life smaller than the eye can see”
    Scraped bacteria off his teeth and realized how teeth decay

  • Apothecaries

    -Pharmacies started
    Flourished trade in drugs and east spices

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    He understood Physiology and could describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered that colds are contagious
    Discovered/created bifocals

  • Medical students learning

    Dissected dead bodies to understand more of how diseases lead to death
    Study medicine and how it works on different diseases

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered element of oxygen
    Also learned that plants refresh air that has lost oxygen

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered the method of vaccination for smallpox.
    He saved millions of lives by discovering this method

  • Rene Laennec

    Created the stethoscope and the first one was created from wood.
    Stethoscope: Creates a better hearing for the heart and lungs
    Makes it easy for doctors to tell if there was a disease with the patient
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere and proved that they cause diseases

  • Florence Nightingale

    She had the hospital experience from volunteering During the Crimean war she gathered 38 women to care for wounded soldiers or dying ones She is known from her dedication for nursing

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Discovered what was causing childbed fever
    Women died from this fever after giving birth
    -saved lots of womens lives

  • Dimitri Ivanovski

    Filtered diseased plants with poison sap

  • Joesph Lister

    Joesph Lister
    Learned how microorganisms cause infections and to use carbolic acid on wounds because it kills the germs

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Came up with a solution so that there is a germ free area before and during a surgery

  • Robert Koch

    He learned and discovered the organisms that are the cause to diseases
    Made it clear that sanitation and to stay clean is important

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Learned about the affect that medicine would have on disease causing microorganisms
    Brought chemicals to fight diseases

  • Wihelm Roentgen

    In 1895 discovered x rays
    Very first picture of a X-ray was of his wife’s hand

  • Anesthesia

    It was very common for patients to die from in shock under surgery
    So they discovered a drug to put you in a deep sleep so that you cannot feel any pain

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    • Discovered that penicillin killed life threating bacteria -Before this was discovered people died of illness that today for us would be easy to cure

  • Sigmund Freud

    -studied what triggers the conscious and unconscious mind and the parts

  • Gerhard Domagk

    -Founded sulfonamide compounds
    -were the first medications that had an actual effect it had on killing bacteria

  • Jonas Salk

    -Discovered a virus that paralyzed many people most being athletic or very active

  • Albert Sabin

    Used a very affective virus vaccine that we still use today
    -used to immunize babies against diseases

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    -Discovered the DNA structure in molecule form
    -Explained how it duplicates and how you inherit genes

  • Christian Barnard

    -completed the first heart transplant that was a success

  • Ben Carson

    Separated Siamese twins and worked on surgeries for the brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • 5 advancements

    Vaccines
    Anesthesia
    Diabetes care
    Sleep apnea machines
    Health wearables (Apple Watches)