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Savannah History of Healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginning

  • Diseases caused by
    3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil spirits
  • How did they treat illness
    3600 BCE

    How did they treat illness

    Tribal ceremonies to get rid of evil spirits
  • Medicine we use today
    3100 BCE

    Medicine we use today

    Digitalis is a foxglove plant that still give today in pill form
    Quinine comes from bark on a cinchona tree
    Belladonna atropine made from poisonous nightshade plant
    Morphine is made from the opium poppy
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient time

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records were accurate and called upon by the gods
    Priest acted as physicians and treated the sick
    They would drain the blood and also use leeches
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    They used acupuncture therapies. They used stone tools and their methods eventually devolved in to advanced practice
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    They were the first to study it being natural than spirited
    They were not allowed by their religion to dissect
    Their spiritual belief was eliminated by research
    Hippocrates was the father of medicine
  • Ancient Roman’s
    100

    Ancient Roman’s

    They learned sanitation system from the Greeks
    They had the first organized medical care system
    Physicians left a room in there house for the ill
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark ages

  • stop the study of medicine
    500

    stop the study of medicine

    Empire was conquered by the Huns so the medicine had to stop
  • How do you treat diseases
    700

    How do you treat diseases

    They treated the ill with a prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

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

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth
    1450

    Rebirth

    The building of universities and medical schools for research
    The search for new ideas about diseases
    The acceptance of dissection of body’s for study
    The development of printing press and publishing books
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • Gabrielle Fallopius
    1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

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

    William Harvey

    Knowledge to understand physiology and able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping hearts
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin franklin

    Discovered of bifocals ( when sick could transfer )
  • Medical student learning

    Medical student learning

    They also observed patients
  • Joseph Priestly

    Joseph Priestly

    Discovered the element of oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered method of vaccination for small pox.
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    She gained experience by volunteering in hospitals
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Father of microbiology
  • Dmitri ivanovski

    Dmitri ivanovski

    Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms
  • Joseph lister

    Joseph lister

    Discovered microorganisms cause infection
  • Ernst con Bergmann

    Ernst con Bergmann

    Devolved asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and also isolated the bacteria that causes turberculiosis
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganism
  • Wilhelmina Roentgen

    Wilhelmina Roentgen

    discovered X-rays took very first X-ray of his wifes hand
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    they would use herbs hashish and Achilles to relieve the pain and chokes the patients to knock ‘em out.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    found the penicillin that killed life threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    found the conscious and unconscious part of the brains
  • Gerard Domagk

    Gerard Domagk

    discovered sulfonamide compounds
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

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

    Albert Sabin

    used live polio virus
  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Francis crick and James Watson

    discovered the molecular structure of DNA
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    Preformed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • 5 advancements in medicine today

    5 advancements in medicine today

    -Digital advancements in the medical field
    -cure for ahlzeihmers
    -cure for cancer
    -Treatment for postpartum depression
    -better mental health facilities