DORN History of Health Care

By 27kadorn
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease Caused

    Evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments For Sick

    Prayer,Blood letting, Amputation, Exorcism
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Digitalis- for heart
    Quinine- digestion
    Belladonna and atropine- Digestion
    Morphine- Pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Health Records- First to keep accurate records
    Who are physicians?- Priests were the physicians
    How did they heal?- Used medicines, blood letting
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Development of Acupuncture- Had learned that illness can be treated with stone tool.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    illness cause Nature vs Spiritual- They were the first to realize illness could have been caused naturally, but, it used to be consider art.
    Dissection- Because of religion they were not allowed bodies to be dissected.
    Hippocrates- they wrote the standard ethics, which is the standard basis for medical ethic used today.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation Systems- They kept a room for the ill.
    Organize Medical Care- The designated room lead to the beginning hospitals.
    Hospital Development- Public buildings started to be made a the government started to pay physicians.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped Studies

    Stopped Studies
    Stopped the study of Medicine- Roman Empire was taken over by Huns and it stopped. Only Nuns and Men following the religion standards only practiced medicine.
  • 700

    Treating Diseases

    Treating Diseases
    How do they treat diseases- they used prayers
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics
    Epidemics caused many deaths more than 60 million.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Rebirth
    They started building schools and universities for research. They finally allowed dissection of body. Books allowed more knowledge towards research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Studied anatomy of the body and was the one who recorded it.
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    Gabrielle Fallopius
    Describe the circulation of blood flow throughout the human body and the heart pumping.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    Discovered the Eustachian tube

  • Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
    Inventor of the microscope. He scraped his teeth and found bacteria that leads to tooth decay.

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    Dealt with drugs and spices for the East.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Created glasses and found out colds can be transferred from one person to another,

  • Medical students learning

    Observed patient bedside, attended lectures. When the patient died they dissected it to see the disease process

  • Joseph Priestley

    He discovered oxygen as an element and discovered plants give us oxygen.

  • Edward Jenner

    Made a vaccination for small pox and saved many lives.

  • Rene Laennec

    Inventor of the Stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19 and 20th Century

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Discovered childbed fever caused by the physicians dissecting bodies then going to deliver babies not cleaning hands or apron causing the woman to be infected.

  • Florence Nightingale

    Made reports on need for better sanitation.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered microorganisms, found out they cause disease, found out that heating milk can kill bacteria.

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Found out that diseases were caused by microorganisms, including- chicken pox, rabies, measles, influenza, mumps, herpes zoster.

  • Joseph Lister

    First doctor to use antiseptic

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Made a sterile space for surgery.

  • Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease organisms, introduced the importance of sterile places and sanitation.

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Found the use of chemical can kill the microorganisms.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays

  • Anesthesia

    Physicians used herbs and alcohol to relive pain of surgery

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds that’s kills bacteria, also the first medication to actually be effective

  • Jonas Salk

    Dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis

  • Albert Sabin

    Used the live polio virus vaccine which was more effective.

  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Discovered the structure of DNA

  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first heart transplant that was successful

  • Ben Carson

    Separates Siamese twins, performed hemispherectomies , surgery on the brain to stop seizures

  • Phlebotomy

    FDA approved a pill called
  • Period: to

    21 century

  • Smoking

    Banning smoking to help stop heart attacks and asthma.

  • DNA sequence

    Scientists are studying the DNA genome that causes disease leading to help for better treatments

  • Cancer

    Seven out of 35 drugs were approved to help with cancer treatment

  • Diabetes

    GLP-1 and GIP are medicine that cause the pancreas to release a infusion to stop the sugar from spiking after a meal. Also supports weight loss.

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Combined AI with to help identify more health problems