History of Healthcare Weise

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • Disease Caused By
    3900 BCE

    Disease Caused By

    Evil spirits.
  • Treatments for sick
    3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    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 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Earliest people to keep accurate records
    Priests acted as physicians
    Medicines to heal, learned art of splitting fractures and use of leeches
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Stone Age were the first acupuncture therapies. Their methods developed over time to advanced practice.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    They believed in natural rather than spiritual.
    They did not allow bodies to be dissected.
    Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    They found a disease was caused by lack of sanitation. They brought clean water, sewers, and filtering systems.
    First to organize medical care.
    They started keeping rooms in their house for the ill. This was the start of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • Stopped the study of medicine
    500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    They stopped because the Church believed life and death were in God’s hands.
  • How do they treat disease
    700

    How do they treat disease

    Prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Building university’s and schools for research
    Acceptance of dissection if the body for study
    Development of printing press and publishing of books
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studies and recorded anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered tube leading from ear to throat (Eustachian tube)
  • William Harvey

    Describe the circulation of blood and the pumping heart.
  • Antoine Von Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine Von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals and found that colds are passed from person to person.
  • Medical students learning

    Besides learning in a classroom they also observed patients at the bedside.
  • Jospeh Priestly

    Discovered the element oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever)
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    During war she showed her dedication to nursing
  • Louis Pasteur

    Known as “Father of Microbiology”
    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere
    Discovered heating milk prevented growth of bacteria
    Created vaccine for rabies
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

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

    Became first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease-causing organisms
    Developed the culture plate method
    Introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation in preventing the spread of disease
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease-causing microorganisms
    On the 606th experiment he found a treatment that worked
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Before anesthesia doctors used herbs, alcohol, and even chocking method to relive pain/get them unconscious. When it was introduced it helped prevent pain during surgery.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria.
    Considered on of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
    Determined that the mind and body work together.
    His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds.
    Changed the practice of medicine by killing deadly diseases.
  • Jonas Salk

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

    Used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective.
    Still used today to immunize babies against this dreaded disease.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA, based on its known double helix. Their model shows how DNA replicated and how information is coded. This set advancements in molecular biology. They won a Noble Prize in Medicine for this discovery.
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant in 1968.
  • Ben Carson

    Pioneer in separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • 5 Advancements

    1. At home care/Hospice
    2. The ability to transplant several body parts
    3. The ability to use noninvasive techniques
    4. Telemedicine
    5. Caring for unborn fetus