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History of Healthcare Portier

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • Diseases caused by
    3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil spirits
  • Treatments for the sick
    3600 BCE

    Treatments for the sick

    -Blood letting
    -Prayer
    -Acupuncture
  • Medicines used today
    3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis
    -heart medicine
    Quinine
    -controls fever and muscle spasms
    Belladonna and atropine
    -poisonous muscle spasm relief
    Morphine
    -medicine for pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Heath records
    -earliest people to have accurate records
    Who are the physicians?
    -priests
    How did they heal?
    -drain blood by wound
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture
    -from the Stone Age treated illness with stone tools
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual
    -they first studied that illnesses are natural not spiritual
    Dissection
    -religions did not allow people to be dissected
    Hippocrates
    -studied the outside body on symptoms of diseases
  • Ancient Romans
    100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation Systems
    -wearing masks and equipment clean
    Organize medical care
    -first to organize soldiers in hospitals
    Hospital development
    -open to the people for healthcare in hospitals
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • Stoped the study of medicine
    500

    Stoped the study of medicine

    Monks and presets had no interest in the body. They believed life and death were in Gods hands.
  • How do they treat disease?
    700

    How do they treat disease?

    They treatment mostly was prayer. Medicine was a mixture of herbs.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    The disease the Bubonic plague affected many people at the same time.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth
    1450

    Rebirth

    Universities
    -schools for studying the body
    Dissection
    -dissection of the body is allowed
    Books
    -printing press created more books to the public for knowledge
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes.
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

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

    William Harvey

    Was able to described the circulation of the blood and the pumping of the heart.
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope and found there is life smaller eyes can see. He found out how teeth decay.
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies started forming for drugs and spices.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals and colds are contagious.
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning

    Learned in classroom and hands on working with dead bodies to discover illnesses.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Discovered oxygen and how it’s used in plants.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered the vaccination for small pox.
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    Volunteered in hospitals to care for soldiers.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified childbed fever. Hand washing became more common.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Discovered microorganisms were everywhere and cause disease. Created a vaccine for rabies.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    Microorganisms cause infections.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered diseases are caused by microorganisms and called viruses.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann

    Invented asepsis.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Discovered lots of disease causing organisms. Introduced sanitation.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

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

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays.
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    The invention of anesthesia happened. Before doctors would give them alcohol or herbs before a surgery.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found out that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

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

    Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfanilamide compounds that kills bacteria.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Discovered that immunity to poliomyelitis would come from a dead polio.
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    He 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

    Did the first heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    Separates Siamese twins.
  • Stopping Bleeding

    Stopping Bleeding

    After 9/11 doctors found better ways to stop bleeding.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Artificial Liver

    Artificial Liver

    An artificial liver was made of stem cells.
  • Robotic Exoskeletons

    Robotic Exoskeletons

    A wrist remote function for robotic exoskeletons.
  • 3-D Printed Body Parts

    3-D Printed Body Parts

    The first successful 3-D printed body part.
  • Artificial Pancreas

    Artificial Pancreas

    Good for type 1 diabetes for their autoimmune system.