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History of Healthcare Rettler

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease Caused by

    By evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    They used herbs and plants
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis is used for the heart
    Quinine Is used for Fevers
    Belladonna and atropine are for (GI) pain
    Morphine is used for pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 3999 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    They kept accurate health records
    The priests where physicians
    They called the gods to heal them
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Used to treat illness and disease with stone tools for acupuncture
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Discovered diseases might be natural not spiritual
    Did not allow bodies to be dissected
    The father of medicine (Hippocrates)
  • 100 BCE

    Ancient Roman’s

    They brought clean water into the cities
    They were the first to organize medical care and send out medical care things to the army
    We’re public buildings for the sick would attend
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stoped the study of medicine

    They stopped the study of medicine cause it was only practiced in convents and monasteries
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    They treat diseases by praying
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Had buildings for learning medical school
    Accepted dissection
    Development of printing books
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Study and recorded the body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tube of the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    The tube leading the ear to the throat
  • William Harvey

    Understood physiology
  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the micro scope and started to look at the teeth
  • Apothecaries

    Trade in drugs
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals and found that colds pass on from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    A wide range of students were studying medicine
  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination
  • Rene Leannec

    Invented the stethoscope, to hear the heart and lungs to hear if there was a disease
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Found the cause of childbed fever, women would die after giving birth from this disease
  • Florence nightingale

    Florence nightingale

    Founder of modern nursing, the students raised the standers of nursing
  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered tiny microorganisms were everywhere
  • Dmitri ivanovski

    Discovered that disease are small even for a microscope
  • Joseph lister

    Learned about pastures discovery that microorganisms cause infection
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis, to keep an area germ free before and during surgery
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    He developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens
  • Paul ehrlich

    His discoveries brought the use of chemicals to fight diseases
  • Wilhelm roentgen

    Discovered x rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Started to use the drugs cause the pain was to bad to handle
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life threading bacteria
  • Sigma Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious arts of the brain
  • Gerhard domagk

    Found sulfonamide compounds. The first effective in killing bacteria.
  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Albert Sabin

    Used live polio virus vaccine
  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Francis crick and James Watson

    Discovered the structure of dna based on its known double helix
  • Christian Barnard

    Performed that first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Counties to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing on the brain
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Diabetes

    There have been many changes to improve the mediocre and the monitoring for diabetes
  • Allergy and immunology

    They have came out with more mediocre to help with allergies.
  • Emergency medicine

    It was first created in the 1980s but has developed by using ultrasounds widespread.
  • Neurology

    Genomics has had a huge impact on mediocre and how it is delivered to patients.
  • Eye drops

    They are trying to make a more effective eye drop using a different type of jelly to help patients.