History of Healthcare Christiansen

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    early begginings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by?

    Evil spirtis
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    A tribal doctor cut out a part of the cranium
  • Medicines used today
    3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    -Digitalis is a medicine from a plant used to treat forms of heart conditions.
    -Quinine controls fevers, relieves muscle spasms, and helps to prevent malaria.
    -Belladonna and atropine relieve muscle spasms especially in Gastrointestinal pain.
    -Morphine is used to treat severe pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient Times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    -They were the earliest people to keep health records.
    -The priests were the physicians
    -They used medicines to heal diseases learned how to splint fractures and used blood leading
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    They were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies. they learned to cure a variety of diseases with stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    -They were the first discover that illnesses may have natural cause rather than spiritual.
    -During ancient times dissection was prohibited.
    -Hippocrates was the father of medicine he based knowledge off of anatomy and physiology on observation of the external body
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    -Sanitation Systems the Roman’s built sewers to carry off waste, they also built public baths with filtering systems.
    -The Roman’s were the first to organize medical care. They sent medical equipment and physicians with their armies to care for wounded solders.
    -Public buildings for the care of the sick were established, physicians were payed by Roman government.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Why was the study of medicine stopped?

    The study stopped because the Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns.
  • 700

    How did they treat disease?

    Primary treatment and herbal mixtures, and custodial care.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics caused millions of deaths.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Reanaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    -The building of universities and medical schools for research
    -Dissection of the body for study was now allowed
    -The development of printing press and the publishing of books started allowing greater access to knowledge from research
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    She discovered the fallopian tubes of the female body
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    He discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat (Eustachian tube).
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    He used his knowledge to understand physiology and was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart.
  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    He invented the microscope, establishing there is life smaller than the eye can see.
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the East
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    He discovered bifocals, and that colds could be passed from person to person.
  • Medical students learning

    Students attended lectures and observed patients at the bedside. When a patient died they dissected the body and could observe the disease process.
  • Joseph Priestley

    He discovered oxygen. He also observed that plants refresh air that has lost it’s oxygen making it useable for respiration.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination foe small pox saving millions of lives, also leading to immunization and to preventive medicine in public health.
  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope, allowing doctors tho tell if disease was present.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    She attracted well educated women to the Nightingale School or Nursing. She also designed a hospital ward that improved the environment and care of the patients.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified cause of childbed fever. He noted that patients of midwives had fewer deaths. Physicians did not was hands before giving birth.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere. He also discovered heating milk prevented bacteria growing. He created rabies vaccine.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    He discovered tobacco mosaic virus.
  • Joseph Lister

    He used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs that cause infection.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    he developed asepsis. He developed a method to keep an area germ free before and during surgery.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    He discovered many disease causing organisms. He developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and also isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    He discovered the effect of medicine on disease
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    He discovered X-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, nitrous oxide, ether and chloroform were discovered, and used to put patients in a deep sleep.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    He found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
  • Gerard Domagk

    discovered sulfonamide compounds.
  • Jonas Salk

    discovered that the dead polio virus would cause immunity.
  • Albert Sabin

    He used live polio virus vaccine which is more effective. Used today to immunize babies against dreaded disease.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    They discovered the molecular structure of DNA based on its known double helix.
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    Performed first successful heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    He is a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, on the brain to stop seizures.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • 5 Advancements in Medicine.

    1. mRNA Vaccines
    2. Gene therapy
    3. Personalized Medicine
    4. 3D Printing of Organs Throughout 2023-2025