Woelfel,History of Healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused By?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the Sick

    Blood leading, exorcise, and trephining
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Digitalis-treats heart conditions
    Quinine-controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria
    Belladonna and atropine- relieve muscle spasms
    Morphine-pain medicine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records-first people to keep records
    Who are physicians-the priests
    How did they heal-medicines
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture-first to use acupuncture and used stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs Spiritual-the Greeks were the first to study the causes of disease
    Dissection-religious customs didn’t allow bodies to be dissected
    Hippocrates-the father of medicine
  • Ancient Romans
    100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation systems-brought clean water into their cities by waterways
    Organize medical care-they physicians and medical equipment with armies for the wounded(physicians also kept rooms in their homes for the ill)
    Hospital development-public buildings for the care of the sick were established
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the Study of Medicine, Why?

    The church believed that life and death was in gods hands
  • 700

    How do They Treat Disease?

    Prayers and medicine consisting of herbal mixtures
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    caused millions of deaths, some include:the black death, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth?
    1450

    Rebirth?

    The rebirth of learning:
    Universities- universities/medical schools were built Dissection-now excepted
    Books-the development of the printing press and the publishing of books
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    She discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

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

    He was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope, there is a life smaller than the eye can see, and found bacteria on his teeth that causes tooth decay
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies (were started at this time)
  • Period: to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Many important discoveries: bifocals and he found that colds could be passed between people
  • Medical Students Learning

    -able to attend lectures
    -observed patients at the bedside
    -when patients died the student could dissect the body
  • Joseph Priestley

    discovered the element oxygen and that plants refresh air that has lost oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    he discovered a certain method of vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    -cause of childbed fever
    -discovered that physicians were infecting women by not washing their hands
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    -had a school for nursing
    -took 38 women to care for soldiers(why she is a legend because of her dedication)
    -made reports about the need for better sanitation, construction, and management of hospitals
    -nightingale fund
    -designed a clean and spacious hospital ward
  • Louis Pasteur

    -father of microbiology
    -proved microorganisms cause disease
    -discovered heating milk prevented bacteria growth
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    discovered viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    -used carbolic acid to kill germs on wounds
    -first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis (a method to keep an area germ free)
  • Robert Koch

    -discovered many disease causing organisms
    -culture plate method
    -importance of sanitation and cleanliness
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    -discovered x-rays
    -took first x-ray picture of his wife’s hand
  • Anesthesia

    -before the 19th century there was no anesthesia
    -nitrous oxide (for dental) and chloroform were used to put people into a deep sleep
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacterias
  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds
  • Jonas Salk

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

    Found using a live polio virus was ,pre effective than a dead one
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the structure of DNA based on its known double helix (won a Nobel Prize for this discovery)
  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    -a pioneer in separating Siamese twins
    -performs surgeries on the brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Personalized Medicine

    Focused on personal medicine by analyzing someone’s genetics, lifestyle, and clinical data to treat them more efficiently
  • Wearable Medical Devices

    Electronic gadgets that are worn to collect and analyze health data (heart rate, activity levels, blood pressure, etc.)
  • 3D Printed Organs

    3D Printed Organs

    creation of physical replicas of structures within the body using 3D printing
  • VR

    VR

    Offers a risk-free environment to practice medical procedures and develop skills like communication with virtual patients
  • Telemedicine

    -using technology to provide healthcare remotely
    -allows patients to consult with doctors, receive diagnoses, and monitor their progress