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History of Healthcare Miskulin

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • Disease Caused By
    3900 BCE

    Disease Caused By

    Evil spirits
  • Treatments for the Sick
    3600 BCE

    Treatments for the Sick

    • Bloodletting
    • Exorcism
    • Prayer and divine intervention
  • Medicine Used Today
    3100 BCE

    Medicine Used Today

    Digitalis:
    - comes from foxglove plant, earlier people chewed the leaves
    - given as pill, intravenously, injection now Quinine:
    - taken from bark of cinchona tree
    - controls fever, relives muscle spasms, helps prevent malaria Belladonna and atropine:
    - made from nightshade plant (poisonous)
    - relives muscle spasms, especially in GI pain Morphine:
    - made from opium poppy
    - treats severe pain
    - addicting
    - used as last option
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    • kept accurate records
    • priests were healers of disease (used leeches and splints)
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    • pioneered acupuncture in medicine with stone tools
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    • researches disease cause
    • did not think diseases were sent by a higher power
    • disease was caused by poor sanitation
    • religion didn’t allow body dissections
    • Hippocrates wrote Oath of Hippocrates (ethic standard)
  • Ancient Romans
    100

    Ancient Romans

    • aqueducts, sewage systems, public baths with filters
    • med equipment and physicians were found in army
    • room in physician’s house for sick (early hospital)
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • Stopped Study of Medicine
    500

    Stopped Study of Medicine

    • Roman Empire conquered by the Huns
    • Church believed life and death was up to God
  • Treating Disease
    700

    Treating Disease

    • holy people administered healing through prayer and herbs
    • care was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    • lack of healthcare caused outbreaks of disease (Bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, tuberculosis)
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth of Learning
    1450

    Rebirth of Learning

    • universities and med schools were built
    • body dissections were accepted again
    • printing press developed, books published
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th & 17th Centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    • studied and recorded human anatomy
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    • discovered fallopian tubes
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    • discovered tube from ear to throat (Eustachian tube)
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    • anatomy knowledge was used to understand physiology
    • described circulation of blood and pumping of heart
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    • invented microscope
    • found bacteria that causes tooth decay
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    • early pharmacies
    • traded drugs and spices
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    • bifocals
    • colds were passed person to person
  • Med Students Learning

    Med Students Learning

    • attended lectures, labs, observed bedside
    • dissected dead patients
    • better understanding of illness and death
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    • discovered the element oxygen
    • plants refresh used air
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    • smallpox vaccinations
    • led to immunization and preventative meds
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    • invented stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    • identifies causes of childhood fever
    • midwives died less than physicians
    • physicians went to dead room to dissect bodies without washing hands after
    • when they delivered babies, they infected the women
    • strong hand washing advocate
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    • Volunteered in hospitals
    • Took group of 38 women to care for dying, cholera-stricken soldiers
    • wanted effective training for nurses, construction of, management of, and sanitation of hospitals
    • designed clean hospital ward
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    • Father of Microbiology
    • discovered micro organisms were everywhere, could cause disease, not created by it
    • discovered pasteurization of milk kills germs
    • rabies vaccine
  • Dimitri Ivanovski

    Dimitri Ivanovski

    • discovered viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    • used antiseptics during surgery
  • Ernest bon Bergmann

    Ernest bon Bergmann

    • developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    • discovered disease-causing organisms
    • importance of cleanliness
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    • discovered effect of meds on disease-causing microorganisms
    • treatment for syphilis
  • William Roentgen

    William Roentgen

    • discovered x-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    • early = choked to unconsciousness
    • now = chloroform
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    • penicillin killed deadly bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    • conscious & unconscious parts of mind
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk

    • sulfonamide compounds
    • meds killed bacteria
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    • dead polio caused immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    • used live polio virus for immunization (more effective)
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    • discovered molecular structure of DNA
    • Nobel Prize winners
  • Christian Bernard

    Christian Bernard

    • performed 1st successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    • separates conjoined twins
    • preforms hemispherectomies
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Care

    Care

    • care for the unborn fetus
  • Alternative Medicine

    Alternative Medicine

    • acupuncture
    • acupressure
    • herbal therapy
  • Transplants

    Transplants

    • organ transplants from donors to recipients
  • Reattachment

    Reattachment

    • successfully reattach severed body parts
  • Diagnosis

    Diagnosis

    • non-penetrative diagnosis techniques