History of Healthcare Morlan

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused by?

    Evil Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the Sick

    Prayer, Exorcisms, Blood Letting, Medicines
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Digitalis-heart conditions
    Quinine-fever, malaria, spasm
    BelladonnaAtropine-muscle spasms
    Morphine-pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    1st accurate health records, Priests-Physicians, medicine to heal
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Treat variety of illness, stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Sacred temples of healing, natural causes, massage, herbal therapies, religious customs not allow bodies dissected, father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Clean water, baths, medical care for sick/injured, room in house for ill
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the Study of Medicine

    Roman Empire conquered, believed life and death in God’s hands
  • 700

    How do they Treat Disease?

    Herbal mixtures, custodial care
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphillis, tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Medical schools and universities for research, acceptance of dissection of body, published books for better access to research
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded anatomy of human body
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes of female anatomy
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered tube leading from ear to throat
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Described circulation of blood and pumping of heart
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented microscope, life smaller than eye can see, found bacteria on teeth
  • Apothecaries

    Traded drugs and spices from the East
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Bifocals, colds passed person to person
  • Medical Students Learning

    Lectures in classroom and lab, observed patients at bedside
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Discovered element oxygen, plants refresh air
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a vaccination for smallpox, led to preventative medicine
  • René Laënnec

    René Laënnec

    Invented stethoscope, hear heart
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Century

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    identified cause of childbed fever
  • Florence Nightingale

    Improved sanitation, formed nursing into profession, established first nursing school
  • Louis Pasteur

    Father of microbiology, microorganisms everywherecause disease
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Diseases caused by microorganisms unable to be seen under microscope-viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    Carboxylic acid to kill germs that cause infection, 1st doctor use antiseptic in surgery
  • Ernst von Bergman

    Developed asepsis, method to keep area germ free beforeduring surgery
  • Robert Koch

    Developed culture plate-identify pathogensisolated bacterium that causes tuberculosis
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms, led to use of chemicals to fight disease
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays, see inside body to find ailment
  • Anesthesia

    Early physicians used herbs, hashishalcohol. Nitrous oxide, etherchloroform now used
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria, penicillin one of most important discoveries of 20th century
  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of mind, determined mindbody work together
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds, first medications effective to kill bacteria
  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered dead polio virus cause immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Albert Sabin

    Used live polio virus vaccine-more effective
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered molecular structure of DNA-double helix, led to rapid advances in molecular biology
  • Christian Barnard

    Performed first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Separates Siamese twinsperforms hemispherectomies, surgeries on brain
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Circadian Clock

    Sends signals to control body’s daily rhythms
  • Protein Transfer

    Preserves functional blood cells
  • Vaccines

    HPV Vaccine approved, reducing rate of cervical cancerother cancers
  • Infection

    Viral infection infect cells 3 dimensions
  • Cancer Immunotherapy

    Estrogen fuel cancer, explains classic models of breast cancer