Friendshuh History of Healthcare

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Treatments used for sickness…

    • digitalis comes from the foxglove plant and is given in a pill form, IV, or injected to treat heart conditions
    • quinine comes from the bark of the cinchona tree, it controls fever, relives muscle spasm especially GI pain Belladonna and atropine are made from the poisonous nightshade plant and help relieve muscle spasm especially GI pain.
    • morphine is made from opium poppy and is used for treating sever pain. It is addicting and only used if nothing else works.
  • 2990 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    • health records were superstitious and called upon the gods to heal them, learned to identify certain diseases.
    • the physicians were priests they learned how to treat disease and heal fractures, and learned the art of bloodletting with leeches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    The Chinese were the first to use acupuncture, they used stone tools. This later because the advanced practice of modern day accupuncture
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    They were the first to study the cause of disease and to determine that illnesses may have natural instead of spiritual causes. They were not allowed to dissect humans because of religious reasons. The oath of Hippocrates is the basis for todays medical ethnics.
  • Period: 299 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 100

    Ancient romans

    Romans learned from the Greeks that a sanitation system was very important. They brought clean water in to their city by waterways, built sewers to carry off waste, and built public baths with filtering systems.

    Romans sent medical equipment and physicians with eir armies to care for hurt soldiers. This was the beginning of hospitals, public buildings for the sick to be healed were built.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Study of medicine stopped

    The study of medicine was stopped for a period of 1,00 years because the church believed that life and death were in God’s hands.
  • 700

    How did they treat disease?

    The primary treatment was prayer and herbal mixtures.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics caused may deaths during this period, bubonic plague alone killed 60 million people.There are many other uncontrolled diseases and today these illnesses are not always life threatening because of vaccines and medications.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    There were many developments during this period. The building of university and medical schools for research, the acceptance of dissection of the body for study, and the development of publishing books to allow better access to knowledge for research were all things that happened during the rebirth.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    Discovered the fillopian tube
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube from you ear to your throat

  • William Harvey

    Able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

  • Antoine con Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope

  • Apothecaries

    The early pharmacies
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Invented the first bifocals and found colds could be passed from person to person

  • Medical students learning

    Attended lectures in the classroom and laboratory but also observed patients

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered oxygen

  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered a cure for small pox

  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Identified the cause of child bed fever

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    Became a legend because of her dedication to nursing

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Discovered the tiny microorganisms were everywhere

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski
    Discovered that some microorganismscaused disease

  • Joseph lister

    Learned that microorganisms cause infections

  • Ernst von bergmann

    He developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Discovered many disease-causing organisms

  • Paul ehrilcih

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing organism's

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays

  • Anesthesia

    Helps with the pain of surgery, before doctors would use herbs, hashish, and alcohol to stop the pain of surgery.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed some life-threatening bactiria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind

  • Gerard domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered that a dead polio would cause immunity to poliomyelitis

  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    Used a live polio virus vaccine

  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Francis crick and James Watson
    Discovered the structure por DNA

  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard
    Preformed the first successful heart transplant

  • Ben carson

    Ben carson
    Separated Siamese twins
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Advancement 5

    The use of portable and handheld computers to aid in diagnosis, accurate record keeping, and research

  • Advancement 4

    The ability to transport organs from a donor to a recipient

  • Advancement 2

    The ability to reattach severed body parts

  • Advancement 3

    Caring for the unborn fetus

  • Advancement 1

    The possibility of eliminating disabling disease through genetic research