Svetlichnyy history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease diseases caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the Sick

    Doctors Would remove part of the cranium as treatment.
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis- comes from thefoxglove plant. It is now in pill form or can be a shot to help treat the heart. Quinine- Comes from the bark of the Chinchona tree. It makes your muscles hurt at controls fever, and helps prevent malaria. Baladonna and atropine- It is a poisonous nightshade plant. Helps the muscles, especially GI pain. Morphine- Comes from the opium poppy. Almost like ibuprofen treating pain and it can be addicting when nothing else works.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    The Egyptians held all health records. The priest acted as physicians. To heal, they treated the people by blood leading with the use of leeches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Were the first of development of the acupuncture.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    They were first to notice the causes of disease and to realize illnesses can have natural rather than spiritual causes. While the An ancient times religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hypocrites based his knowledge of the body and physiology on looking of the external body.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    These people were first to realize that Treatment places needed to be cleaned And that diseases were caused by unsanitary places. Romans also first realized the importance of organizing medical care. Lastly the Romans invented the use of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine why?

    Start the study of medicine because the church believe that everyone’s lives were all protected by God and they were in God’s hands.
  • 700

    How do they treat diseases?

    Prayer and medicine was herbal mixtures
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    This caused death during the middle age like the Bubonic plague and other disease diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis, and other small ones. Which back then they were not small but now they are non-life-threatening.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    Universities were used for research and medical schools. They accepted dissection of the body for studying. They grew the printing press and publishing of books became more common so studying medicine was easier.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriel Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes in females
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    discovered the tube leading from ear to throat
  • Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek

    invented the microscope, saying that there is life smaller than your eye can see.
  • Apothecaries

    engaged in flourishing, trade in drugs and spices from the east
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals and found out that sickness could be contagious
  • Medical students learning

    A wider range of students were studying medicine
  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Found a method of vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    identify the cause of child bed fever
  • Florence Nightingale

    founder of modern nursing
  • Louis Pasteur

    father of microbiology
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    History of virology
  • Joseph Lister

    Learned about Pasteurs Discovery that microorganism cause infection.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    discovered many disease causing organisms