Piwonski-Dickinson history of health care

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil Spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    They’ve performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used to today

    Digtails are given in pill form and control heart conditions
    Quinine is a bark. It controls fever, relive muscle spasm’s, and helps prevent malaria
    Belladona and Atropine made from poisonous nightshade and it relives muscle spasms
    Morphine is from opium poppy treating severe pain. (It’s addicting)
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    They were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priest acted as physicians. They healed by using medicine to heal diseases. They loved bloodletting with leeches.
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Acupuncture started with stone tools this is how they would heal them for illness and disease
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    They were the first to discover that illness was natural and not cause by spirits. Hippocrates based his knowledge off of anatomy and his observations and he found that it was true that sickness is cause by nature. And then they wrote the ethics called oath of Hippocrates
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    They brought in clean water into the city’s, they also built sewers to carry off the waste. They built public bathrooms with filtering systems. This started pubic health and sanitation.They were the first to organize there medical materials. They kept a room in their house for the ill this was the start of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Why did they stop the study of medicine

    The study of medicine stopped when the Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns. And was only practiced in convents and monasteries.
  • 700

    How did the treat disease

    The primary way to treat disease was through prayer. But if they did use medicine it was made of herbal mixtures
  • Period: 800 to

    Middle age

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    The epidemics of this time killed millions. The Black Death killed 60 million alone. They also suffered smallpox, syphilis, and diphtheria.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    During this time they built universities so that they could study they were also building medical schools. They started to accept that you should study of dissection to the body. They started printing and publishing books so that people had a wider reach to information.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Study and record the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes in the human body
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Found the tube from the ear to the throat
  • William Harvey

    He was able to describe the circulation and the pumping of blood.
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope which led to being able to see that there are things smaller than the eye can see. He also found that teeth decay.
  • Apothecaries

    These people where early pharmacies. They started in medieval England they liked to trade drugs and spices from the east.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    He discovered that colds could be passed down from person to person. He also was responsible for finding bifocals.
  • Medical students learning

    They started learning not only in the classroom but also by the bed side. When a patient died they would dissect the body and observe disease process. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female physician in the USA.
  • Joseph Priestley

    He discovered the element of oxygen. He also found that plants refresh air that has lost the oxygen, making the air usable for respiration again.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    H e discovered the method for vaccination for smallpox. His discovery also led to immunization and to prevention medicine in public health.
  • Rene Laennec

    He invented the stethoscope. The first one was made of wood.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    He found the cause of childbed fevers. He found that when delivering the babies they did not wear clean things. And infected the women. He said handwashing was very important.
  • Florence nightingale

    established the first nursing school.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    He is the father of microbiology. He found that tiny microorganisms are everywhere. He proved that these caused disease. He also found that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria. He also created the vaccine for rabies.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    He discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen without a microscope. He called them viruses.
  • Joseph Lister

    He learn that Pasteur discovery that microorganism caused infections. He used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs that cause infection. He became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during a surgery so that it would help the prevent of infection in the incision.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    He developed asepsis he knew from others research that germs caused infections in the wounds. He developed a method to keep an area germ-free before and during surgery. This was what started asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    He discovered many disease causing organisms. He developed the culture plate method. He also isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. He also introduced the importance of cleanness and sanitation and preventing the spread of the disease.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    He discovered the effect of medicine on disease, causing microorganisms. His treatments were effective against some microorganisms, but it was not effective in killing other bacteria. His discovery made the use of chemicals to fight disease. On his 606th experiment he found a treatment that worked for syphilis.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    He discovered x-rays. He took the very first picture using x-rays of his wife’s hand. What he discovered allowed doctors to see the inside of the body and help them discover what was wrong with the patient.
  • Anesthesia

    Loss of feeling or sensation
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    He found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria. The discovery of penicillin is considered one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century. Before this medicine was discovered people died of things we consider curable today.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. He determined that the mind and body work together this led to him understanding, physical illnesses caused by emotional conflict. His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds these compounds were the medication’s effective in killing bacteria.
  • Jonas Salk

    He discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. It paralyzed thousands of adults and children every year.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    They discovered the molecule structure for DNA. They also found out DNA replicate’s. They also found that hereditary information is coded on it. They won the Nobel prize in medicine for this discovery.
  • Christian Barnard

    He performed the first successful heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    He’s working on separating Siamese twins. And preforming hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Approval of artificial organs

    The FDA approved artificial organs like the bionic eye, which also gave the green light for functional lab grown cells.
  • Artificial muscles

    Scientist are developing artificial muscles. They successfully did an implantation of a 3-D printed artificial skin graft. -began in 2015 this 3D experiment.
  • Covid 19

    Covid 19

    During the pandemic it killed thousands of people. Until they were finally able to find a vaccine that was able to stop the spread of the disease.
  • Over the counter birth control

    Over the counter birth control

    The FDA approved Opal. It’s now available without a prescription in the US which expanded access to birth control for all of the population.
  • Ai in radiotherapy

    In a hospital in the UK an AI powered Osairis made radiotherapy planning time cut from hours to minutes.