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History of Healthcare, Kelsey

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive Time

  • Important Medicines still used today
    3900 BCE

    Important Medicines still used today

    Morphine for pain and digitalis for heart
  • Believed disease was caused by?
    3800 BCE

    Believed disease was caused by?

    Supernatural spirts and demons
  • Average life span
    3700 BCE

    Average life span

    20 years old
  • How do they heal?
    2900 BCE

    How do they heal?

    People called on the gods to heal them
  • Who are physicians? Who was the first?
    2800 BCE

    Who are physicians? Who was the first?

    Physicians were priests the first was Imhotep
  • Average life span
    2700 BCE

    Average life span

    20-30 years
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

  • Dissection
    1600 BCE

    Dissection

    (Beliefs and result)
    Religious beliefs against dissection resulted incomplete knowledge of the body structure
  • Importance of the whole body
    1500 BCE

    Importance of the whole body

    Curing the spirit and nourishing the body
  • Average life span
    1400 BCE

    Average life span

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

    Ancient Greeks

  • Period: 753 BCE to 410

    Ancient Romans

  • Hippocrates
    460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    The father of medicine
  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Dissected animals also know as the founder of comparative anatomy
  • Average life span
    370 BCE

    Average life span

    25-35 years
  • Period: 300 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • Sanitation system
    200 BCE

    Sanitation system

    • Clean aqueducts to help carry water to the cities
    • built sewers to help carry waste materials away from all the cities
    • filtering systems for public baths to prevent disease
    • drained marshes to reduce malaria
  • Hospitals
    100 BCE

    Hospitals

    Physicians would care for the ill people in the rooms are their own homes
  • Average life span
    300

    Average life span

    25-35 years
  • Average life span
    300

    Average life span

    20-30 years
  • Prohibited study of medicine and why? And
    400

    Prohibited study of medicine and why? And

    Saving the soul was the main point of medicine so studying anything other than that was prohibited
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • How did they treat diseases?
    500

    How did they treat diseases?

    Divine intervention and prayers
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • Medical Universities
    850

    Medical Universities

    In the 9th century physicians began to learn from universities
  • Pandemic
    900

    Pandemic

    Worldwide epidemic of the Black Plague killed 3/4 of Europe and Asias population
  • Rhazes
    910

    Rhazes

    A Arab physician become known as Arab Hippocrates
  • Average life span
    1000

    Average life span

    20-35 years
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth
    1401

    Rebirth

    Science of medicine
  • Dissection
    1425

    Dissection

    To better understand the human anatomy and physiology
  • Artists
    1450

    Artists

    Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw and paint more realistically
  • Average life span
    1475

    Average life span

    30-40 years
  • Cause of disease
    1501

    Cause of disease

    Still not know
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th century

  • Father of Modern surgery
    1510

    Father of Modern surgery

    A French surgeon by the name of Ambroise Pare
  • Gabriel Fallopius
    1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    *Discovered the Fallopian tubes in females
    * described the tympanic membrane in the ear
  • Average life span

    Average life span

    35-45 years
  • Period: to

    17th century

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Described circulation of blood to and from the heart for others to understand
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Early pharmacists
  • Average life span

    Average life span

    35-45 years
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Created the first mercury thermometer
  • James Lind

    James Lind

    To prevent scurvy he prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C
  • Average life span

    Average life span

    40-50 years
  • Period: to

    19th century

  • Blood transfusions

    Blood transfusions

    First successful was done by James Blundell
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    First female physician
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    Founder of modern day nursing
  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross

    Clara Barton was the founder
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays
  • Average life span

    Average life span

    40-60
  • Period: to

    20th century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin
  • Open heart surgery

    Open heart surgery

    Heart and lung machine was used
  • First transplants

    First transplants

    • Kidney was done by Joseph Murray in 1954
    • liver was done by Thomas Starzl in 1963
    • lung was done by James Hardy in 1964
  • CAT scan

    CAT scan

    Sir Godfrey Hounsfield
  • Test tube baby

    Test tube baby

    The first test tube baby was Louise Brown
  • Average life span

    Average life span

    60-70 years