History of Healthcare Muraski

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil spirits
  • Treatment for the sick
    3600 BCE

    Treatment for the sick

    They used tribal doctors to perform ceremonies to heal
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    They used leeches, to drain blood. Digtails, quinine, Belladona, atropine, morphine
  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records, physicians called gods to help, learned to identify sickness, priests were physicians, used leeches.
  • Period: 2900 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture: they made it in the Stone Age. Treated illness with stone, eventually developed to todays.
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks were first to study causes to illness, they kept records and information, did research, and used herbs and massages, did not allow dissection, Hippocrates wrote ethics and based knowledge on anatomy of external body
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Measured effects, found some disease caused by lack of sanitation, made a sanitation system. Built baths and clean water and sewers, sent medicinal stuff to soldiers, kept room in house for the ill, then public buildings
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Why they stopped studying of medicine

    When they got conquered by the Huns, stopped for 1000 years, church believed life and death was im gods hands, prayer was the best treatment
  • 700

    How they treated disease

    Primal treatment is prayer, meds had herbs, and care was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Millions of deaths, the black plague, small pox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis were the diseases that caused most deaths.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    during the rebirth studying and learning came back. Universities started being made for research, dissected bodies for study, realized god wasn't always the answer to illness, started making books for better research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th century

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He studied and recorded the anatomy of the human body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tube in the female body.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat, called the Eustachian tube
  • William Harvey

    Used his knowledge to understand physiology, described circulation of blood to pump the heart.
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope, noticed life is smaller than the eye can see, found bacteria from tooth decay, the germs were now visible but not noticed.
  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies started, engaged in flourishing trade for drugs and herbs/ spices.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals, found out colds can be passed between people.
  • Medical students learning

    Attended lectures, observed patients at beside, dissected bodies, observe disease process, got to a larger amount of students studying
  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen, observed plants refreshing oxygen, respiration
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Made a vaccination for smallpox, his discovery saved millions
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invented stethoscope, made of wood. Made it easier to hear lungs and breathing, to see if there was disease.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    Made nursing a thing, nursing became a respected profession.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    Discovered the causes of childbed fever, discovered that women with midwives had fewer deaths, physicians did not wash hands or clothes he found out and that could’ve been the cause. Now hand washing and clothes washing is important
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that microorganisms were everywhere, through studies he realized they can cause disease. He also created a vaccine for rabies
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski

    He discovered that some diseases came from microorganisms, and called them viruses.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    Used carbolic acid on wounds and injuries to kill germs. First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann

    Made asepsis. Developed method to keep areas germ free before surgery.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Made the culture plate method to identify pathogens. Isolated the bacterium that can cause tuberculosis.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered effects of medicines on disease making microorganisms. Effective against some disease but did not kill all bacteria. Because of him chemicals started being used to treat diseases. He completed 606 experiments to find a cure for syphilis.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays.
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Before anesthesia was a thing patients had to deal with the pain of being awake. Nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform was discovered and would put their patients to sleep.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin kills life threatening bacterias. Saved people with things like pneumonia, gonorrhea, and blood poisoning.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconsciousness of the mind. He determined the brain and body work together. Lead to understanding of psychosomatic illness.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds. Used for first medicines to effectively kill bacteria.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Discovered that a dead polio virus will make immunity to poliomyelitis. Saved many people from death or crippling.
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio vaccine that was more effective. It is still used today.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    Dis covered the molecular structure of DNA. Taught how it replicates and coding on it.
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    Had the first successful heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    Had surgeries to stop brain seizures, pioneers in separating Siamese twins
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • 3d printing

    3d printing

    3d printing available for things such as joint replacements, cranial implants, and dental restorations.
  • Telehealth/ mobile health

    Telehealth/ mobile health

    Can access needed medical care takers online, with their access to look through your files to help. Easier to communicate faster.
  • Wearable technology

    Wearable technology

    Makes it easier for anyone to have access to blood pressure, steps, and more just on their watch.
  • Electronic health records

    Electronic health records

    Health record all recorded online so it’s simple and faster, in 2009 is when it because more sufficient.
  • Virtual reality

    Virtual reality

    Virtual reality used to relax or distract patients, as well as help teach people in health care.