History of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    Disease caused by
    Supernatural spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Treatments for sick
    They performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits.
  • 3100 BCE

    Medics used today

    Medics used today
    Digitalis-used to treat heart conditions
    quinines-controls fever, relives muscle spasms, prevents malaria
    Belladonna-relives muscle spasms mainly in the gastrointestinal pain
    Morphine-treats severe pain and is addicting
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Health records- they kept accurate health records
    Who are physicians-the priests
    How did they heal-they used medicines
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Development of acupuncture- Chinese were the first to use acupuncture
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual-religion allowed for body’s to be dissected
    Dissection-religion allowed it
    Hippocrates-wrote the standard of ethics called the oath of Hippocrates
  • Period: 400 BCE to 800 BCE

    Dark ages

  • 100

    Ancient Roman

    Ancient Roman
    Sanitation system-they brought clean water to there city by aqueducts and they learned it from the Greeks
    Organize medical care-they were the first to organize medical care
    Hospital development-they sent medical equipment to their armies to care for soliders wounds
  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?
    because the church believes life and death was in gods hands
  • 700

    How do hey treat disease?

    How do hey treat disease?
    The church and priests believed that they should only use prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics
    caused millions of deaths from the bubonic plague some other diseases included smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis and tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Rebirth
    Universities-during this period new scientific progress began
    Dissection-they now accepted dissection
    Books-they started documenting information in books and printing them
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    He recorded and studied anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Gabriele Fallopius
    He discovered female anatomy including the Fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    He found the tubes leading from the ear to the throat
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    He learned to understand physiology and he discovered the pumping of the heart and blood flow
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
    He invented the microscope and and found out that there are things alive that are smaller than the eye can see. He also found bacteria on his teeth
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    Apothecaries are early pharmacies that provided drugs and spices from the east
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    He discovered bifocals and discovered that cold can be passed from person to person
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Medical students learning

    The student attended lectures, observed patients and when the patient died they would dissect it and observe the disease process.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    He discovered oxygen and how oxygens are a source of oxygen which makes it usable for respiration
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    He discovered a vaccine for smallpox’s. His discovery saved millions of lives
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    She invented the stethoscope, the first one was made from wood. It makes it easier to hear the heart and lungs to check for disease
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    He discovered the cause for an illness that woman received after giving birth. The cause was doctors not cleaning their tools and equipment between surgeries and people
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    He discovered that small microorganisms are everywhere. He discovered that they cause disease. He also created a vaccine for rabies in 1885
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski
    He discovered microorganisms and how they cause disease and can’t be seen under a microscope and they are called viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    He used carbolic axis to kill germs that cause infection and he was the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann
    He developed asepsis. He developed a way to keep a area germ free before surgery
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    He developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and more. He also introduced the importance of keeping things clean and sanitiation
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    He discovered the effects of medicine on disease and discovered that one treatment only effects some diseases and not all
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Wilhelm Roentgen Discovered x-rays that allowed you to see in the body and discover what’s wrong
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    Before anesthesia they used herbs, hashish and alcohol to help with the pain of surgery. They also choked people to cause unconsciousness. Multiple people even died for this
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Found the penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the Brain and he found out that the mind and body work together
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    He discovered sulfonamide compounds that were the first medication effective in killing bacteria
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    He found that dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis a disease that paralyzed thousands of people each year
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    He used a live polio virus vaccine which is used to immunize babies against the disease
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson
    They discovered the structure of DNA and how it replicates. They won a Nobel prize for their discovery
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard
    Performed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson
    He separated Siamese twins and performs surgeries on the Brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st century

    1)Telemedicine-Provides healthcare using technology when patients are not able to go to the doctor 2)the ability to reattach body parts 3)the ability to transplant organs 4)eliminating possible diseases for a patient through genetic research 5)the advancement in technology for caring for unborn children