Lefevre history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for the sick

    Prayer, exorcisms, blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    *Digitalis- pill for heart
    *quinine- cold medicine
    *belladonna and atropine- realizes muscle spasms
    *morphine- pain medicine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records- first accurate records
    Who are the physicians- the priests
    How did they heal- used medicine and treated blood disorders as well as healing bones
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture- used stone tools to treat illness and provided therapeutic acupuncture
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause nature vs spiritual- sacred healing temples and the first to discover that illnesses were not spiritual
    Dissection- they didn’t allow bodies to be dissected
    Hippocrates- the father of medicine and known for anatomy
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    sanitation systems- brought clean sanitary water this was the beginning of the sanitation systems
    Organize medical care- ancient Roman’s were the first to organize their medical care
    Hospital development- public hospitals were made and physicians got paid by government
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped study of medicine why?

    They were taken over by nomads from the north causing them to pause the study of medicine. for 1000 years there were also very few people to use or study medicine since most believed that life and death were in gods hands
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    They mostly meditated and preyed since they believed that life or death was in gods hands.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities- they built universities and schools to study medicines
    Dissection- they accepted dissection
    Book- they published and acknowledged books to study the ways of medicine and illness
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    The first to illustrate the human body anatomy
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommemo Eustachio

    Discovered Eustachian tube
  • William Harvey

    He was a physiologist who could describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart?
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Traded herbs and medicines
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Invented the bifocals
  • Medical students learning

    Students learned about the medical field
  • Joseph priestley

    Discovered the element of oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered the vaccination for small pox
  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Invented the cause of childbed fever
  • Florence Nightingale

    The founder of modern nursing
  • Louis Pasteur

    The father of microbiology he discovered microorganisms
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered some diseases caused by microorganisms
  • Joseph Lister

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

    Developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Introduce the concept of cleanliness
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on microorganisms
  • Wilhelmina Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Sedative
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered unconscious unconscious parts of the mind
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds
  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered that Deadpool virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA
  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Separates Siamese twins
  • Period: to

    21st century

    Covid vaccine- in 2020 there was a vaccine made for the covid 19 virus
    Robots- using AI and robots there are now robots that can help doctors preform even the most tedious procedures
    Prosthetics- there are new ways to create fake limbs such as 3D printing and new tech that allows prosthetics to move
    Therapy-as time advances mental health is becoming more of a big deal for wellness and health
    Electronic communication-communication can be on computers, phones, and other forms of technology
  • Covid vaccine

    Covid vaccine

    Covid vaccine- in 2020 there was a vaccine made for the covid 19 virus
  • Therapy

    Therapy

    Mental health has become more important over time