Hasser History Of Healthcare Timeline

Early Beginnings

Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

Diseases caused by?

3900 BCE

evil spirits

Treatments for sick?

3600 BCE

Performed ceremonies to get rid of evil spirits

Medicines used today

3100 BCE

• Digitalis is used to treat heart conditions and problems
• Quinine helps reduce fever, releases muscle spasms and helps prevent malaria
• Belladonna helps with relieving muscle spasms especially in gastrointestinal
• morphine help relieve pain and is only used when nothing else will help

Ancient Times

Period: 2999 BCE to 399

Ancient Egyptians

2900 BCE

• They where the first too use health records
• physicians normally where the priests
• they healed by the use of leaches

Ancient Chinese

1900 BCE

They where to first to use acupuncture and they found it helped a lot to heal and tread illness and disease.

Medical students learning

1750 BCE

• students only attended Laboratory’s and lectors but they also observed patients bedside, when someone died students dissected the body and studied the body, this helped expand the understanding of illness and disease’s

Ancient Greeks

900 BCE

• They where the first too use study the causes of disease and if they where from natural causes
• due to religion it was not allowed for the body to be dissected
• Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called the oath of Hippocrates

Ancient Romans

100 BCE

• they were the first to organize healthcare and sent medical equipment and physicians for wounded soldiers
• it was the start of hospitals and many of the physicians kept a room out of there house for the sick
• Roman physicians wore a “death mask,” this mask had a spice-filled break, which they believed protected them for infection, and bad orders

Dark Age

Period: 400 to 800

Stopped the study of medicine?

500

They stopped the study of medicine because the church believed life and death where in gods hands.

How do they treat disease?

700

• the primary treatment the y used was prayer and medication consisted of herbal mixes and the care during that time was custodial

Middle age

Period: 800 to 1400

Epidemics

1100

Bad epidemics caused lots of deaths during this time, The Black Death alone killed 60 people, and on top lots of other diseases like small pox, syphilis, diphtheria where killing more people. Without vaccines and the right medicine these diseases became epidemics.

Renaissance

Period: 1350 to 1650

Rebirth

1450

• many universities and schools for medical research where created
• the search for more information and ideas about diseases came upon during this time
• the acceptance of dissection
• improvement o printing press an publishing of books provided more knowledge

16th and 17th centuries

Period: 1501 to 1700

Leonardo De Vinci

1515

• studies the anatomy of the body and recorded information on the anatomy

Gabrielle Fallopius

1550

discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy

Bartolommeo Eustachio

1563

discovered the tube from the ear to the throat

William Harvey

1628

• he studied physiology and was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

1666

• invented the microscope, and established there is life that is smaller than a human eye can see, specifically he scarped his own tooth to figure out the. Bacteria of tooth decay and was able to see the germs

Apothecaries

1675

• early pharmacies started in this time and established trade for spices and drugs with the east

18th century

Period: 1701 to 1800

Benjamin Franklin

1730

• He discovered that a cold can pass from person to person and his discoveries helped us in many ways

Joseph Priestley

1755

• he discovered the element oxygen and observed that plants refresh air that has lost oxygen that can be used for respiration

Edward Jenner

1796

• Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox and this saved many many lives

Rene Laennec

1799

• invented the stethoscope which increased the ability to hear the heart and lungs helping doctors determine if disease was present

19th and 20th century

Period: 1801 to 2000

Louis Pasteur

1855

• discovered microorganisms and proved that they cause diseases he also discovered heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria and lastly he created a vaccine for rabies in 1885

Ignaz Semmelweis

1860

• discovered childbed fever, which many women suffered from after giving birth, as well as he noticed how the un clean rooms, and physicians where making them sick and therefore washing hands and cleaning the rooms became a regular practice

Florence Nightingale

1860

• she became a legend due to her dedication to nursing, as during the Crimean war she took 38 women to care for the soldiers including her and less soldiers where dying from war injuries

Dmitri Ivanovski

1892

• He discovered that some diseases where caused by microorganisms that can not be seen with a microscope these are called viruses

Joseph lister

1895

• he learned about how microorganisms cause infections. He also used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs. He was the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery

Ernst Von Bergmann

1905

• developed asepsis, he developed a method to keep an area germ free before and during surgery

Robert Koch

1910

• discovered many disease- causing organisms, and. He developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens he also introduced the importance of sanitization preventing the spread of disease.

Paul Enrlich

1912

• Discovered the effect of medicine on disease- causing microorganisms. And after many experiments found a treatment that worked

Wilhelmina roentgen

1920

• discovered X rays in 189f, he took the very first picture using an X ray taking a picture of his wife’s hand, his discovery helped discover what was wrong with patients

Anesthesia

1925

• Before anesthesia, physicians would use hurts, Hadith and school to help relieve the pain or forgery, Then ether and chloroform were discovered and these drugs help put people into a deep sleep so they do not feel the pain during the surgery.

Sir Alexander Fleming

1928

• discovered that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria, this was seen as one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century due to previously deaths from illness that we consider curable today.

Sigmund Freud

1930

• Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the minds, and he studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body, and confirmed the mind and body worked together, which led to much more understanding

Gerard Domagk

1945

-discovered sulfonamide compounds which where the first medicines effectively killing bacteria, which led to helping kill deadly diseases

Jonas Salk

1955

• discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis, this virus paralyzed many adults and children every year, this discovery saved many deaths

Albert Sabin

1961

• used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective, this accident is still used today to help immunize babies against this dreaded disease

Francis Crick and James Watson

1962

• discovered the structure of DNA, and how hereditary information is coded on it, this still to this day is helpful and being discovered

Christian Barnard

1968

• Performed the first successful heart transplant

Ben Carson

1987

• continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures

21st century

Period: 2001 to 2025

5 advancements

2020

1. Functional MRI
2. Targeted therapy in cancer treatment 3.bionic prosthetics 4.laparoscopic surgery 5.lab grown blood