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History of healthcare edwin

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginning

  • Diseased caused by
    3900 BCE

    Diseased caused by

    Evil spirits
  • Treatments for the sick
    3600 BCE

    Treatments for the sick

    Blood letting
    Exorcism
    Prayer and Devine intervention
  • Medicine used today
    3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Digitalis:
    -foxglove plant
    -pill form or injections
    -treat heart conditions Quinine:
    -controls fever, relives muscles spasms, and helps prevent malaria Belladonna and atropine:
    -relive muscle spasms Morphine:
    -treats pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records:
    -gods Who are physicians:
    -priests How do they heal:
    -Bloodletting with leeches
    -acupuncture therapies
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture:
    -used to treat illnesses and diseases with stone tools
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause vs. nature spiritual:
    -considered an art
    -housed in sacred temples of healing Dissection:
    -did not allow bodies to be dissected Hippocrates:
    -the oath physicians need to take
  • Ancient Roman’s
    100

    Ancient Roman’s

    Sanitation system:
    -built sewers to carry out waste, along with public baths with a filtering system Organize medical care:
    -sent to wounded soldiers Hospital development:
    -begging of hospitals was created by housing I’ll in a room
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • Stopped the study if medicine
    500

    Stopped the study if medicine

    Believed life and death were in gods hands
  • How did they treat disease
    700

    How did they treat disease

    Prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    Bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth
    1450

    Rebirth

    University’s:
    -search for new ideas about disease rather than unquestioning acceptance of disease as the will of god Dissection:
    -acceptance Books:
    -created and helped study the anatomy of the body
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • Gabrielle fallopius
    1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    Discovered the Fallopian tubes
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to throat
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Trade in drugs and spices
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher.
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning

    Not only learned but also observed and can dissect the body
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen also observed that plants refresh air that has lost its oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19 and 20th centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    Founder of modern nursing
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever along with the importance of washing your hands
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere
  • Dmitri ivanovski

    Dmitri ivanovski

    study of mosaic disease in tobacco, first detailed many of the characteristics of the organisms that came to be known as viruses.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    Discovery that microorganisms cause infection and became the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery.
  • Ernst von Bergman

    Ernst von Bergman

    Developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease causing organisms
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform were discovered. These drugs have the ability to put people under during surgery with no pain.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life-threat-ening Bactria.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA.
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    Preformed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispheres, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.
  • Advancements in medicine

    Advancements in medicine

    1)Gene therapy
    2)insulin
    3)vaccination
    4) Epidemiology
    5) 3D printing
  • Period: to

    21st century