Rademacher history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    We believed evil spirits made us sick
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for the sick

    prayer
    Exorcisms
    Blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    • Digitalis
      Heart pill
    • Quinine
      Cold medicine
    • belladonna + atropine
      Used to relax muscles
    Morphine
    Pain med
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    First accurate health records
    Priests acted as physicians
    They treated bones, used medicines, and blood letting
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    used stone tools to treat illness and provided therapeutic services
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    first to discover illnesses were not spiritual.
    Didn’t allow bodies to be dissected
    Father of medicine and known for anatomy.
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    Ancient Romans

    they were the first to sanitize. They transported water via waterways. They transported medical supplies to the soilders and kept rooms reserved for medical assistance. These were the first hospital like buildings.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    many epidemics and sicknesses killed millions.
    Ex: Bubonic plague
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    there were many more scientific discovery’s because of universities and the acciptence of dissecting bodies in order to learn. Books were also included in order to educate.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16 and 17 Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    created anatomy book
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    discovered the Fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    discovered the tube that leads to you throat from your ear
  • William Harvey

    discovered how the heart works
  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    early pharmacies
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    discoverd colds are able to spread
  • Joseph Priestley

    discovered oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    discovered a vaccine for smallpox
  • Medical students learning

    wider range of students started studying medical books.
  • Rene Laennec

    invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    he is the main reason we now wash our hands today and he identified the cause of childbed fever
  • Florence Nightingale

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  • Louis Pasteur

    discovered microorganisms
  • Dimitri Ivanoviski

    discovered viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    first to use Antiseptic during surgery
  • Ernst Von Bergmann

    developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Introduced the importance of cleanliness
  • Paul Ehrilich

    found a treatment for syphilis
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    discovered X-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Medicine to put people to sleep was created.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    discovered penicillin killed bacteria.
  • Sigmund Freud

    determined that the mind and body work together
  • Gerhard Domagk

    discovered more medications that killed bacteria
  • Jonas Salk

    descoverd the polio vaccine
  • Albert Sabin

    used the polio vaccine
  • Francis Crick + James Watson

    Discovered DNA structure
  • Christian Barnard

    performed the first SUCCESFUL hear transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    separated the first Siamese Twins.
  • Period: to

    21st Century