Kabara history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beggings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treaments for sick

    prayer
    Blood letting
    Herbs
  • Medicines used today
    3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis- pill comes from foxglove plant, treats heart conditions
    Quinine- controls fever, relives muscle pain, and prevents malaria comes from cinchona tree Belladonna and atropine- relieves muscle pain and GI pain comes from poisonous nightshade plant Morphine-treating severe pain used when nothing else will help because its addicting comes from opium poppy plant
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    health records- the first people to keep accurate ones. The priests were physicians, they healed people by using medicines, they splinted fractures and they used bloodletting.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    The Chinese people were the first to use acupuncture they did this with stone tools to treat diseases and illnesses
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    They had temples of healing. They were the first to study class of diseases. religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocarates was known as the father of medicine he kept notes of signs and symptoms of the external body. The Greeks learned the effects of disease. They found out that it was caused by lack of sanitation, this was the start of public sanitation and health.
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    first to organize medical care, Roman physicians kept rooms for the ill in their homes this was the beginning of hospitals, Roman physicians were paid by the Roman government. They wore a mask that they believed kept infections and bad orders away
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    the study of medicine was stopped for 1000 years in the church only convents and monasteries practiced medicine. The churched stopped because they believed that the body was in Gods hands and the primary source of medicine was prayer.
  • 700

    How did they treat disease

    church- prayer
    Other- herbal mixes and care was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    causes millions of deaths, the bubonic plague killed 60million, uncontrolled disease like smallpox, diphtheria, and tuberculosis also killed many
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Saw a rebirth in learning there were any developments like universities and other buildings for research. They had new ideas for disease, it was now socially acceptable for the dissection of the body. The printing press was made, they were publishing books allowing for greater access and knowledge.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th century

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    recorded the anatomy of the body
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    discovered the fallopian tubes
  • Bartlommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartlommeo Eustachio

    discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat
  • William Harvey

    describe the circulation of blood pumping to the heart
  • Antonine von Leeuwenhoek

    invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    florishing trade of drugs in the east
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    he discovered that colds can be passed from person to person
  • Students

    observed patients at the bedside and observed disease progression
  • Joseph Priestley

    discoverd the oxygen element
  • Edward Jenner

    discovered the smallpox vaccine
  • Rene Laennec

    made the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    Helped improve the dirty imvermant
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    found the cause of childbed fever
  • Luis Pasteur

    discovered that microorganisms are everywhere
  • Dimitri Ivanovski

    discovered that some things can not be seen without microphones
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    discovered viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    first to use antiseptics in surgery
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    discovered many disease-causing organisms
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effects of medication on disease
  • Wilhelm roentgen

    Wilhelm roentgen

    discovered x-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Used nitrous oxide (for dental care) and than they used chloroform discovered that it put people to sleep
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    found penicillin killed a life threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    discovered that the mind and body worked together
  • Gerhard domagk

    first way of killing bacteria
  • Jonas Salk

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

    used a live polio virus found out it was more effective
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    discovered the molecular structure of DNA
  • Christian Barnard

    Did the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    separating Siamese twins
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Smoke free laws

    there are areas to smoke, can’t smoke everywhere
  • Birth control pills

    woman can now have fewer periods and other things
  • Face transplant

    The first successful face transplant and now done more
  • Targeted cancer therapy

    therapy directed at the cancer cells rather than all of the cell’s including the healthy ones
  • Hemgenix

    Gene therapy treatment for hemophilia
  • gene sequencing

    found out the order of the human genes and where they all go