Ripkoski History of Heath Care

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for the sick?

    They used spiritual practices and herbs
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    They used houny, willow bark, mold
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Heath Records
    They used medical text on papyrus
    Who are Physicians?
    They specialized professionals, who were also called swnw.
    How did they heal?
    They used honey and herbs for wounds.
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture
    They used sharpened stone and bones to treat pain and illness
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual
    They believed that illness was a divine punishment. They used healing deities.
    Dissection
    It was a practice of human cadaveric
    Hippocrates
    He was also called “Father of Medicine”. He also considered medicine as a rational.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation systems
    The physicians wore death mask that had spied filled beaks.
    Organized medical care
    They sent medication and physicians with the armies to care for them.
    Hospital development
    In Rome hospital were a room in the physicians house before they made separate buildings
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    Why?
    The church believe that life and death was in God’s hands.
  • 700

    Disease treatment.

    The main treatment was prayer. There medication was main herbs
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Over the years millions die from Epidemics. These were the bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis and tuberculosis.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities
    They started to build universities and medical schools for research
    Dissection
    Accepted dissection as a form form of studying the human body
    Books
    Started printing and publishing books to make it easier to access the knowledge from research
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo influence the study’s through his accurate drawings of the human body
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    He discovered the fallopian tubes
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1553

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

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

    William Harvey

    He was able to describe the circulation of blood and how the heart pumps the blood
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    He invented the microscope, finding bacteria from his teeth
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    They were part of the early pharmacies, trading drugs and spices from the east
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    He discovered colds could be passed person to person
  • Medical students learning

    Students started meeting in lectures in classrooms and laboratories.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    He discovered the element oxygen. Also observed a plant refreshes are making it able to be respirated
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    He discovered a vaccine to fight smallpox. This discovery saved over millions of lives.
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    He invented the stethoscope letting us determine if someone had an illness
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    he found the case of child bed fever.
  • Florence Nightingale

    She came from a middle-class family that took care of the sick. She became a legend for her dedication to nursing.
  • Louis Pasteur

    He is know as the “Father of Microbiology”. Discovering that tiny microorganisms are everywhere.
  • Dimitri Lvanovski

    He discovered the first virus, the tobacco mosaic virus.
  • Joseph Lister

    He discovered micro-organisms that cause infection. He used carbolic acid to kill germs on wounds.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    He found a method that keeps areas gum-free
  • Robert Koch

    He discovered disease-causing organisms. And found a way to to prevent the spread of disease.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    He found how medicine affects deseases
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    He made the first x-ray which was of his wife’s hand
  • Anesthesia

    Many people died from the pain from surgery before anesthesia. So they started drugging the patents to reduce fatality.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    He discovered a penicillin to kill life-threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    HE studied psychology and psychiatry and learned about the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    He discovered compounds that were affective in killing bacteria, changing the practice of medicine.
  • Jonas Sabin

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

    He made the vaccine to immunize babies against the dreaded disease.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    They discovered the molecular structure of DNA. There discovery explained how we can replicate DNA.
  • Christian Barnard

    He performed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    He performed hemispherectomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Cancer Therapy Advancements

    The FDA approved a pill called imatinib for cancer. It is sold under the brand Gleevec and Glivec
  • HPV vaccine

    The vaccine was a major milestone, many cancers are caused by HPV.
  • Regenerative medicine and therapies

    Therapies focus on the body’s to regrow and repair tissue. In the last decade we have see major development.
  • Breakthrough in robotic surgerys

    The FDA approved the assistive exoskeleton-controlled system, letting patients stand and walk.
  • Artificial ovaries transplant

    Women freeze their ovaries when they have cancer and transplant them to avoid infertility.
  • Virtual realities for sugeries

    Vr helps people to improve their performance in surgery’s. It provides a real-life experience without extreme risk.