Betts history of healthcare

By Carolynbetts1234
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Prayer, blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Digitals- for heart
    Quinine- digestion
    Belladonna and atropine- digestion
    Morphine- pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Egyptians were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priests acted as physicians. To heal they used medicine for diseases, learned how to splint fractures, and did blood letting which is where they would use leeches to treat disorders.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    The early medical pioneers used stone tools for acupuncture. Eventually there methods advanced.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancients Greeks

    The Greeks first thought that the cause of illness was spiritual but they eventually searched for new information and found that it was natural. Religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates wrote the standard ethics called the oath of Hippocrates, physicians today still take this oath.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    They built sewers and public baths with filtering systems. They would send medical equipment and physicians with their armies to care for wounded soldiers. They eventually built buildings to help aid people which were hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    When the Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns, the study of medical science stopped. Medicine was only convents and monasteries because the church believed that life and death were in gods hands.
  • 700

    How they treated disease

    The primary treatment was prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics caused millions of deaths during this time. There were diseases such as bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. The bubonic plague alone killed 60 million people.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    During this period they had many developments such as building universities and medical schools for research, acceptance of dissection of the body for study, and the development of the printing press and the publishing of books. These changes influenced the future of medical science.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Gabriele Fallopius discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey used knowledge to understand physiology, and he was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

  • Antonio von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonio von Leeuwenhoek Invented the microscope, establishing that there is life smaller than the eye can see

  • Apothecaries

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

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovers bifocals, and found that colds could be passed from person to person

  • Medical students learning

    Students not only attended lectures in the classroom but also observed bodies that passed away so they could dissect the body and be able to observe the disease process

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element of oxygen

  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox

  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever

  • Florence Nightingale

    Attracted well-educated, dedicated women to the nightingale school of nursing.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere.

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope.

  • Joseph Lister

    Learned about Pasteur’s discovery that microorganisms cause infection.

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease-causing organisms

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease-causing microorganisms

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays in 1895

  • Anesthesia

    Early physicians used herbs, hashish, and alcohol to help relieve the pain of surgery

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds

  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis

  • Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more affective

  • 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

    Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins, and performing Hemispherectomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Vaccines

    The first HPV vaccination was approved in 2006

  • Robot assisted surgery

    Surgery assisted by a robot to help with smaller incisions

  • Ultrasounds

    Help see inside a woman’s stomach

  • Diabetes medication and monitoring

    Insulin patches

  • Slowing known Alzheimer’s

    Procedure that slows Alzheimer’s down