Devroy History of Health Care

  • Period: 3600 BCE to 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Used the gods to heal them, bloodletting using leaches
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis for heart
    Quinine for digestion
    Belladonna and atropine for digestion
    Morphine for pain
  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Health Records- Egyptian medical papyri
    Who are physicians - barbers could do bloodletting
    How did they heal - natural antibiotics such as honey or onions
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Acupuncture devolved by using a stone
  • 1350 BCE

    Renaissance/ rebirth

    Universities - bologna, Padua, Rome, Turin
    Dissection- Antonio Pollainolo dissected human body’s to learn anatomy in a more modern way
    Books- Eastern Europe ended a 3 day sack of the city Rome
  • 1100 BCE

    Middle age

    Middle age
    The plague of Anthens, The Black Plague ( the Black Death)
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Illness causes- being to hot, to cold, to wet or to dry
    Spritital illness causes - evil spirits or angry gods
    Dissection- was used for learning the anatomy
    Hippocrates- father of medicine in Ancient Greek
  • 100 BCE

    Ancient Roman’s

    Ancient Roman’s
    Sanitation systems - sewered covered in stones
    Organize medical care- providing treatment to soldiers
    Hospital development- combination of Greek medicine and local practices
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

    Why did they stop? -It didn’t make significant practice
    How do they treat diseases?- they used the gods upon to heal them
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Advancements in health care

    MRI- can see into your brain/ head
    HIV treatments
    Finding cancer treatments
    Remote patient care - prescribing medicine over the phone
    RSV vaccine
  • 1515

    Leonard da Vinci

    Leonard da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci was the first to identify the dental formula correctly
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Gabriele named and discovered many parts of the human body
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo discovered the parts of the ear
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    William was the first to recognize the circulation of blood in the human body
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie discovered bacteria parasitic microscopic protist, sperm cells, blood cells, etc.
  • Apothecaries

    They sold ingredients to medicines to cure Ancient Greeks and Ancient Rome
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin prescribed diseases to people
  • Medical students learning

    Apprenticeship with other doctors
  • Joseph priestly

    Joseph discovered oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward performed the worlds first vaccination
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Rene invented the first stethoscope
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz hypothesized that certain death particles from body tissues and deceased body’s.
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence provided personal care, like writing letter from home to soldiers.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Louis became a pioneer of vaccines
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri used a filtering method, so he could filter diseased plants into a safe place for his other plants.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph reduced infections after surgical procedures and helped patients live longer
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    First physician to introduce heated surgical tools. Reducing the number of infections they had.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    He identified individual pathogens and infection paths.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Led the development of chemotherapy and targeted specific treatment concepts
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    He took the first X-ray
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    William T.G. Morton invented anesthesia in the ancient times.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered and founder of psychoanalysis
  • Gerhard Domagk

    He discovered the first sulfa drug
  • Jonas Salk

    He found the cure to polio, although he did not get any money from finding it.
  • Albert Sabin

    He discovered a oral polio cure
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    They both discovered the DNA double helix
  • Christian Barnard

    He made 10 heart transplants and he had the courage to carry out the worlds first heart transplant on a deceased human donor
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson
    He was part of a 70 team member surgical team
  • Ancient Times

    Ancient Times
  • Period: to

    Diseases caused by

    Believed they were caused by supernatural spirits
    Caused by bugs, genetics, animals
  • Period: to

    Early beginnings

    Diseases were cause by genetics, bugs, animals, etc.
    treatments were prayed upon the gods.
    Digitalis for heart
    Quinine for digestion
    Belladonna and atropine for digestion
    Morphine for pain