Pratt history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Prayer, exorcisms,blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    Accurate health records are to ensure comprehensive patients care, morphine used for the management of moderate to severe pain, quinine is used primarily to treat malaria and babesiosis.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    health records were superstitious and called upon the gods. Priest used medicine to heal diseases learned how to splinter fractures and treated disorders.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    development of acupuncture they learned to treat a lot of illness and disease with stone tools.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    illness was caused by nature more then spiritual. Body’s were not allowed to be dissected Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called the oath of Hippocrates.
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    sanitation systems this was disease was caused by lack of sanitation. The Roman’s sent medical equipment with their army’s to care for the wounded soldiers once hospitals became public buildings the care for the sick was established.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    turned religious.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    vaccines and medications
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    caused millions of deaths during the period
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    universities and medical schools for research dissections included a shift from flawed text based learning to direct observation.renaissance and the printing press
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    studied the anatomy of the body
  • Gabrielle fallopius
    1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
  • Bartolommeo eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo eustachio

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

    William Harvey

    figured out how to describe the blood and the pumping of the heart
  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the east
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin franklin

    discovered that cold can be passed from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning

    More people wanted to keep learning
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    discovered the element oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene Leannec

    invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence nightingale

    Attracted well educated dedicated women to the nightingale
  • Ignacio Semmelweis

    identified the cause of childbed fever giving birth
  • Louis Pasteur

    Father of microbiology discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere
  • Dimitri ivanovski

    History of virology
  • Joseph lister

    Learned about Pasteur discovery that microorganism caused infection
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    discovered many disease causing organisms.
  • Paul ehrlich

    discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
  • Wilhelmina roentgen

    discovered x rays in 1895 took the very first x ray
  • Anesthesia

    used herbs hashish and alcohol to help relieve pain in surgery.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria.
  • Sigmund freud

    discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
  • Gerhard domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds
  • Jonas Salk

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

    used A live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective
  • Francis crick and James Watson

    discovered the molecular structure of DNA based on its known double helix
  • Christian Barnard

    performed the first successful heart transplant in 1968
  • Ben carson

    continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemishperectomies
  • 5 advancements in medicines

    Human genome project completion
    CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
    Immunotherapy for cancer
    Artificial intelligence in diagnostics
    MRNA vaccines
  • Period: to

    21st century