Harnowski History Of Health Care

By 27alharnowski
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginning

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused By

    Diseases Caused By
    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sickness

    Treatments for sickness
    Used herbs and plants for medicine
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Medicines used today
    Digitalis comes from a plant. It is used to help heart conditions
    Quinine comes from the bark of trees. It controls fevers and relives muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria.
    Belladonna and atropine are made from poisonous nightshade plants. They relive muscle spams, especially in gastrointestinal pain.
    Morphine is made from opium poppy. It is a medication to help stop severe pain.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Egyptians were the earliest people to keep health records.
    In the Egyptian culture, the priest acted like a physician.
    They used medicines to heal diseases, learned the art of splinting fractures, and treated disorders by bloodletting with the use of leeches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    They learned to treat a variety of illness and disease with stone tools. Which then developed into the Chinese acupuncture.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    They were the first to study the causes of disease and to determine that illnesses may have natural, rather than spiritual causes.
    Durning ancient times, religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected.
    The father of medicine, Hippocrates, based on his knowledge of anatomy and physiology on observation of the external body.
  • 100 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    They found that some diseases were caused by lack of sanitation. Then developed a sanitation system.
    The Roman’s were first to organize medical care. They were the first to provide medical equipment for soldiers.
    Romans created hospitals. Public building were provided for the sick. Physicians were paired by the Roman government.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    Stopped the study of medicine
    When the Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns the study of medical science stopped. For a period of 1,000 years, medicine was practiced only in convents and monasteries.
  • 700

    How do they treat diseases

    How do they treat diseases
    The primary treatment was prayer. Medicines consisted of herbal mixtures, and care was custodial.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics
    Terrible epidemics caused millions of deaths during this period.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Rebirth
    The Renaissance period saw the rebirth of learning. During this period, new scientific progress began, like:
    The building of universities and medical schools for research
    The acceptance of dissection of the body for study
    The development of the printing press and the publishing of books.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci and recorded the anatomy of the body. See da Vincis depiction of the human body.
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

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

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat.

  • William Harvey

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

  • Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie invented the microscope, establishing that there is life smaller than the eye can see.

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries, early pharmacies, started in this time
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    His discoveries include bifocals, he found that colds could be passed from person to person

  • Medical students learning

    Students not only attended lectures in the classroom and laboratories, but also observed patients in bed.

  • Joesph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen. He also observed that plants refresh air that has lost oxygen.

  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox.

  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the Stethoscope. It was made of wood.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause for childbed fever

  • Florence Nightingale

    She volunteered at hospitals and helped soldiers hurt while at war

  • Louis Pasteur

    Known as the father of microbiology. Discovered that the tiny microorganisms were everywhere.

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered that some that some diseases were caused by microorganisms

  • Joesph Lister

    Learned about Pasteurs discovery that microorganisms cause infection.

  • Ernest von bergmann

    Devolved asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    Discovered many diseases-causing organisms

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays in 1895

  • Anesthesia

    In the early 19 centuries surgery was preformed on patients without anesthesia. They used herbs and other medicines.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillian killed life threatening bacteria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.

  • Gerard 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 effective.

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecule structure for DNA, based on its known double helix

  • Christian Barnard

    Preformed the first successful heart transplant

  • Ben Carson

    A pioneer in separating Siamese Twins and preforming hemispherectomies

  • 5 advancement medicines

    1. Lisinopril is the generic drug name for Zestril. It is a blood pressure medication in the angiotensin converting enzyme
    2. levothyroxine (Synthroid). This medication is an artificial form of thyroxine, a hormone that comes from the thyroid gland
    3. Statin therapies, such as atorvastatin,are the first-line treatment option for high cholesterol.
    4. Metformin is a diabetes medication
    5. Omeprazole.A proton pump inhibitor lowers the amount of acid that the cells in the stomach lining produce.
  • Period: to

    21st century