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History of healthcare witter

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • Disease caused by
    3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    Evil spirits
  • Treatments for the sick
    3600 BCE

    Treatments for the sick

    Blood letting
    Exorcism

    Prayer time and division
  • Medicines used today
    3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis Heart medicine
    Quinine controls fevers
    Belladonna relive muscle spasm
    Morphine pain medication
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records identify certain diseases
    Who are physicians? priests
    How did they heal? Medicines
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture. It’s a way to treat a variety of illnesses
  • Period: 1350 BCE to 1650 BCE

    Renaissance

  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Herbal therapies
    not allowed to dissect the bodies
    The father of medicine
  • Ancient Roman’s
    100 BCE

    Ancient Roman’s

    learned from Greeks, water ways
    First to organize medical care
    Physicians kept a room in there home for the ill
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • Period: 400 to 800

    Middle age

  • Stoped the study of medicine why?
    500

    Stoped the study of medicine why?

    Medicine was only practiced in convents and monasteries.
  • How do they treat disease?
    700

    How do they treat disease?

    Prayer
  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    Killed 60 million people
  • Rebirth
    1450

    Rebirth

    Built for research
    Study of the body
    Allow greater knowledge
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo de Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo de Vinci

    Studied anatomy of body
  • Gabriele fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele fallopius

    Fallopian tubes
  • Bartolommeo eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo eustachio

    Eustachian tube
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Circulation of blood
  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Trade in drugs
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin franklin

    Bifocals
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning

    Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Element oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Smallpox
  • Rene laennec

    Rene laennec

    Stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence nightingale

    Florence nightingale

    School of nursing
  • Ignaz semmelweis

    Ignaz semmelweis

    Puerperal fever
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Father of microbiology
  • Joseph lister

    Joseph lister

    Antiseptic
  • Ernst von bergmann

    Ernst von bergmann

    Asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Disease cause organisms
  • Paul ehrlich

    Paul ehrlich

    606 experiments
  • Wilhelm  roentgen

    Wilhelm roentgen

    X-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Relieve pain of surgery
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Penicillin
  • Sigmund freud

    Sigmund freud

    Psychosomatic illness
  • Gerhard domagk

    Gerhard domagk

    Sulfanilamide compounds
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Polio
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    live polio virus
  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Francis crick and James Watson

    DNA structure
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    Heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    Pioneer
  • 5 advances

    5 advances

    Organ transplant
    Reattach severed body parts
    Noninvasive techniques
    Caring for unborn fetuses
    Computers
  • Period: to

    21st century