Lehmkuhl History of health care timeline

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • Diseases caused by
    3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil spirits.
  • Medicines used today
    3600 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis, Quinine, Belladonna, atropine, morphine
  • Cancer was discovered
    3000 BCE

    Cancer was discovered

    It was found in Ancient Egyptian books in a copy called Edwin Smith Papyrus.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records, physicians are priests. They used medicine to heal disease. And using splints and leeches to heal bones and blood disorders.
  • Abortion was created
    1550 BCE

    Abortion was created

    Egyptian Ebers Papyrus created abortion.
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Greeks developed massage and herbal therapies. Hippocrates was the father of medicine.
  • Ancient Romans
    100

    Ancient Romans

    They sent medical equipment to armies to care for soldiers. Physicians kept a room in their house for patients which began hospitals. The Romans were the first to organize medical care.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

    The church believed life, and death was in gods hands. So they wouldn’t treat diseases.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

    Epidemics caused millions to die.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

    They built universities and medical schools. Dissection of the body was excepted for study. Books were being developed.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tube.
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube from the ear to the throat.
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope proving that life is smaller than just the eyes can see. And found the bacteria that causes tooth decay.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered Colds could be passed from person to person.
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning

    Medical science becoming more organized and advanced.
  • Joseph Priestly

    Joseph Priestly

    Discovered oxygen and plants making oxygen.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered the vaccine for small pox.
  • René Laënnec

    René Laënnec

    Invented the stethoscope it was made of wood.
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton

    Establish records to help search for missing men in the civil war.
  • The first human fossil was found

    The first human fossil was found

    William Buckland found the first human fossil not knowing what he came upon.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    Found the cause of child bed fever.
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    She took a bunch of women to care for wounded soldiers and was a nursing legend.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Father of microbiology said tiny organisms were every where and cause disease. Found out about milk preventing growth of bacteria and found rabies vaccine.
  • The first recorded quadruplets were born

    The first recorded quadruplets were born

    The first quadruplets were born.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski

    Became first doctor to used antiseptic for surgery.
  • Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese

    They were medical pioneers using new developing acupuncture.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann

    Made asepsis. Developed a method to keep an area germ free.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Discovered disease causing organisms. And introduced cleanliness and sanitation to prevent disease.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on microorganisms.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays discovered allowed doctors to see inside the patient’s body
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    They started using anesthesia for better preventing pain on patients instead of alcohol and herbs.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found penicillin that killed life-threatening bacteria. It’s one of the most important diseases of the 20th century.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind he found out that the body and mind work together.
  • Lillian Wald

    Lillian Wald

    Brought nursing into homes of poor and created visiting nurses.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds the first medication effective in killing bacteria.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

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

    Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus as a vaccine and was more effective.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    Who discovered the double helix there models showed how DNA replicates hereditary information. Won the Nobel prize.
  • Christian Bernard

    Christian Bernard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    Is a pioneer separating Siamese twins, and performing hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain.
  • Prenatal nutrition; herpes vaccine candidate

    Prenatal nutrition; herpes vaccine candidate

    Mary-Elizabeth Patti and colleagues at Joplin show bed prenatal nutrition will damage the baby and mom.