History of Healthcare Peotter

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease Caused By?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the sick?

    Tribal ceremonies to rid evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis- for the heart
    Quinine- for fevers
    Belladonna and atropine- for GI (gastrointestinal)
    Morphine- for Pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Accurate Health Records
    Who are physicians- Priests acted as physicians
    How did they heal- splinting fractures and bloodletting with leeches
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture in Stone Age
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual- Learned diseases caused naturally
    Dissection- not allowed
    Hippocrates- father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation system- water filters & sewage systems
    Organize medical care- sent medical treatment to soldiers
    Hospital development- created ill rooms in homes
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    Thought lives in gods hands
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    Prayers & herbal mixtures
  • Period: 800 to 1400 BCE

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities- medical schools
    Dissection- studied inner body
    Books- greater access to learning
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied anatomy of body
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered tube from ear to throat
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Circulation of blood & pumping of heart
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope & found tooth decay bacteria
  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals, found that colds can pass from person to person.
  • Medical Students Learning

    Students attend lectures & observed patients at the bedside.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen & observed that plants refresh air for respiration.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered method for vaccination for smallpox, saved millions of lives
    Led to immunization & preventative medicine
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignacio Semmelweis

    Ignacio Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    Attracted well-educated, dedicated women to the Nightingale School of Nursing.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Father of Microbiology
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered some diseases are caused by microorganisms that can’t be seen with a microscope.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    Used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis
    Developed a method to keep an area clean before & during surgery
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens & isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

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

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Prevents pain
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
    (Lead to the discovery of phycology and psychiatry)
  • 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

    Performed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies (surgeries on the brain to stop seizes)
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Robotic hysterectomy

    Robotic hysterectomy

    Heals quicker
  • Hepatitis C

    A cure was found
  • Artificial Organs

    Artificial Organs

    3D printing human body parts to use
  • mRNA Vaccines

    The first approved mRNA vaccine was the COVID-19.
    Easier to produce in a lab (Faster creation time)
  • Hemgenix

    Hemgenix

    A one time infusion for people with hemophilia B.
  • Lab-Grown Blood (RESTORE Trial)

    Lab-Grown Blood (RESTORE Trial)

    Blood cells grown from donor stem cells.