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History of Healthcare Daphne Zaidel

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treats for sick?

    prayer, exorcisms, blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    -Digitalis heart medicine
    -Quinine prevent malaria
    -Belladonna pain medicine
    -Morphine severe pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    -Earliest people keep accurate records
    -Priests acted as Physicians
    -Skin grafts and restore blood circulation
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    first to use primitive acupuncture therapies
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    First to use primitive acupuncture therapies, their methods eventually developed into the advanced practice of Chinese acupuncture still in common use today
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    -illness cause nature vs spiritual illness - may have natural rather them spiritual causes
    -Dissection - in ancient times religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected
    -Hippocrates - father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient romans

    -sanitation systems - roman physician wore the death mask this mask had a spice-filled beak which the romans believed protected them form infection and bad odors
    -organize medical care - first to organize medical care
    -hospital development - started as room in roman physicians house for the ill
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    stopped the study of medicine, why?

    the study of medicine was stopped for a period of 1,000 years because the church believed that life and death was in gods hands
  • 700

    how do they treat disease?

    prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    caused millions of deaths during this period
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

    -rebirth - the renaissance period saw the rebirth of learning new scientific progress began
    -universities - built universities and medical schools for research
    -dissection - the acceptance of dissection of the body for study
    -books - the development of the printing press and the publishing of books
  • 1450

    rebirth

    -rebirth - the renaissance period saw the rebirth of learning new scientific progress began
    -universities - built universities and medical schools for research
    -dissection - the acceptance of dissection of the body for study
    -books - the development of the printing press and the publishing of books
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da vinci

    studied and recored the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    discovered the fallopian tubes and the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

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

    William Harvey

    used this knowledge to understand physiology and he was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
  • Antonie von leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von leeuwenhoek

    invented microscope he also scraped his teeth and found the bacteria that causes tooth decay
  • Apothecaries

    early pharmacies started in this time in medieval England these apothecaries engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices form the east
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin franklin

    discovered bifocals and found that colds can be passed from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    students not only appended lectures in the class room and laboratory but also observed patients at the bedside
  • Joseph priestley

    discovered element oxygen he also observed that plants refresh air that has lost its oxygen
  • Edward jenner

    Edward jenner

    discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
  • rene laennec

    invented the stethoscope the first stethoscope was made of wood
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    identified the cause of child fever
  • florence nightingale

    founder of modern nursing, first to start nursing school
  • Louis pasteur

    Louis pasteur

    "father of microbiology" discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere
  • Dmitri ivanovski

    discovered that some diseases caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope
  • Joseph lister

    he used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs that caused infection, became first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
  • Ernst Von Bergmann

    developed asepsis
  • Robert koch

    discovered many many disease-causing organisms, he developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    discovered the effect of medicine of disease-causing microorganisms
  • Wilhelm roentgen

    discovered X-rays in 1895, took the very first picture using x-rays of his wife's head
  • Anesthesia

    before anesthesia early physicians used herbs hashish and alcohol to help relived the pain of surgery
  • sir Alexander Fleming

    found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund freud

    Sigmund freud

    discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
  • Gerhard domagk

    discovered sulfonamide compounds, these compounds were the first medications effective in killing bacteria
  • Jonas Salk

    discovered that a dead polio virus cause immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Albert sabin

    Albert sabin

    in contrast to Albert Sabin used a live polio virus vaccine which was more affective this is still used today
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    discovered the molecular structure of DNA based on its known double helix
  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant in 1968
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    Continues to be a pioneer in separation siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • laparoscopic surgery

    heal faster
  • smoking free laws

    no smoking in building
  • Birth control

    no periods/ no pregnancy
  • bionic limbs

    can bluetooth and move as a real limb
  • cyber knife

    very less invasive more affective