History of Healthcare Brunke

By 22wibrunke
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive Time

  • 3900 BCE

    Important Medicines still used today

    Herbs, plants, morphine, and digitalis are all still used today
  • 3800 BCE

    Believed Disease was caused by

    Supernatural spirits and demons
  • 3700 BCE

    Average Lifespan

    20 years
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • 2900 BCE

    How do they heal?

    They called upon the gods or used magic and medicinal plants
  • 2800 BCE

    Who are the Physicians? Who was the 1st?

    Priests who studied medicine and surgery. The 1st was Imhotep
  • 2700 BCE

    Average Lifespan

    20 to 30 years
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

  • 1600 BCE

    Dissection

    Religious prohibitions against dissection resulted in inadequate knowledge of body structure
  • 1500 BCE

    Importance of the WHOLE body

    Believed in treating the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body
  • 1400 BCE

    Average lifespan

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

    Ancient Greeks

  • Period: 753 BCE to 410

    Ancient Romans

  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Father of Medicine
    -Developed method to observe the human body
    -Recorded signs and symptoms of many diseases
    -Created a high standard of ethics, the Oath of Hippocrates, used today
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Dissected animals. The founder of comparative anatomy
  • 370 BCE

    Average lifespan

    25 to 35 years
  • 200 BCE

    Sanitation System

    Aqueducts to transport clean water
    Sewers to carry waste
    Filtering systems in public baths
    Drained marshes to reduce malaria
  • 100 BCE

    Hospitals

    Physician cared for the ill in their house, then they were religious and charitable institutions in monasteries and convents
  • 300

    Average lifespan

    25 to 35 years
  • 400

    Prohibited study of medicine, why?

    Emphasis placed on saving the soul
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    How do they treat disease?

    Prayer and divine intervention
  • 600

    Average lifespan

    20 to 30 years
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 850

    Medical Universities

    Renewed interest in medical practices of Greeks and Romans
    Physicians began to learn at medical universities
  • 900

    Pandemic

    Bubonic plague killed 75% of Europe and Asia
  • 910

    Rhazes

    Arab Hippocrates
    Based diagnoses on observations of symptoms of diseases
    Developed criteria for differentiating smallpox and measles
    Suggested blood was the cause of many diseases
    Began the use of animal gut for suture material
  • 1000

    Average lifespan

    20 to 35 years
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1401

    Rebirth

    Of the science of medicine
  • 1425

    Dissection

    Allowed better understanding of anatomy and physiology
  • 1450

    Artists

    Michelangelo and da Vinci used dissection to draw the human body
  • 1475

    Average Lifespan

    30 to 40 years
  • 1501

    Cause of Disease

    Still not known
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th Century

  • 1510

    Father of Modern surgery

    Ambroise Pare, French surgeon
    Established use of ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding
    Eliminated use of boiling oil to cauterize wounds
    Improved treatment of fractures and promoted use of artificial limbs
  • 1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    Identified the Fallopian tubes in the female
    Described tympanic membrane in the ear

  • Average lifespan

    35 to 45 years
  • Period: to

    17th Century

  • William Harvey

    Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope

  • Apothecaries

    Made, prescribed, and sold medications

  • Average lifespan

    35 to 45 years
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Gabriel Farenheit

    Created the first mercury thermometer

  • James Lind

    Prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent scurvy

  • Edward Jenner

    Developed a vaccination for smallpox

  • Average Lifespan

    40 to 50 years
  • Period: to

    19th Century

  • Blood transfusion

    First successful blood transfusion performed on humans by James Blundell

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    First Female Physician in the US

  • Florence Nightingale

    Founder of modern nursing
    Established efficient and sanitary nursing units during the Crimean War
    Opened the Nightingale school and home for nurses at St. Thomas’ Hospital
    Began the Professional education of nurses

  • American Red Cross

    Founded by Clara Barton

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays

  • Average lifespan

    40 to 60 years
  • Period: to

    20th Century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered Penicillin

  • Open Heart Surgery

    First Heart-lung machine used for open heart surgery

  • Transplants

    First Successful Kidney Transplant
    First lung transplant
    First Successful Heart transplant

  • CAT Scan

    Developed in 1975

  • Test Tube baby

    First “test tube’ baby born in England

  • Average lifespan

    60 to 70 years