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Health timeline

By 23medebauche
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive time

  • 3900 BCE

    Important medicines still used today

    Morphine and digitalis
  • 3800 BCE

    Believed disease was caused by

    Supernatural spirits and demons.
  • 3700 BCE

    Average life span

    20 years
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • 2900 BCE

    How do they heal?

    Called upon the gods when disease occurred or used magic and medicinal plants to tread diseases.
  • 2800 BCE

    Who are physicians? Who was the first?

    Priests who studies medicine and sugary in temple medical schools. Imhotep was the first physician.
  • 2700 BCE

    Average life span

    20-30 years
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

  • 1600 BCE

    Dissection (beliefs and result)

    Religion prohibitions against dissection resulted in inadequate knowledge of body structure.
  • 1500 BCE

    Importance of the whole body

    Believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body.
  • 1400 BCE

    Average life span

    20-30 years
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

  • Period: 753 BCE to 410

    Ancient Romans

  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    He is called the father of medicine, developed an organized method I observe the human body.
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy and believed that illness is a result of natural causes.
  • 300 BCE

    Average life span

    25-35 years
  • 200 BCE

    Sanitation system

    -Created aqueduct to carry clean water to the cities
    -built sewers to carry waste materials away for the cities
    -used filtering systems in public baths to prevent diseases
    -drained marshes to reduce the incidence of malaria
  • 100 BCE

    Hospitals

    We’re religious and charitable institution housed in monasteries and convents
  • 370

    Average life span

    25-30 years
  • 400

    Prohibited study of medicine, why?

    During the dark ages , after the fall of the Roman Empire, the study of medicine stopped because the monks and priests stressed prayer to treat illnesses.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    How do they treat diseases?

    Prayer and Devine intervention were used to treat disease.
  • 600

    Average life span

    20-30
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 850

    Medical universities

    Physicians began learning at medical universities in the ninth century.
  • 900

    Pandemic

    A pandemic worldwide call the black death killed three out of four of the population in Europe and Asia.
  • 910

    Rhazes

    Diagnosed on observations of signs and symptoms of diseases.
  • 1000

    Average life span

    20- 35 years.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1401

    Rebirth

    Rebirth of the science of medicine.
  • 1425

    Dissection

    This allowed a better understanding of anatomy and physiology.
  • 1450

    Artists

    Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw the human body and made it look more realistic.
  • 1475

    Average life span

    30-40 years.
  • 1501

    Causes of disease

    The causes of disease were still not known many people died from infection, childbirth, and fever.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th Century

  • 1510

    Father of modern surgery

    Establish the use of ligatures to bind arteries to stop bleeding, improved treatment of fractures and promoted artificial limbs, and used boiling oil to cauterize wounds. The father of modern surgery was Paré.
  • 1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    Found the Fallopian tubes in the female, and described the tympanic membrane of the ear.

  • Average life span

    35-45 years.
  • Period: to

    17th Century

  • William Harvey

    Identified the circulation of blood in the form of a heart.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope.

  • Apothecaries

    Made, prescribed, and sold medications.

  • Average life span

    35-45 years.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Created the first mercury thermometer.

  • James Lind

    Prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent the disease scurvy.

  • Edward Jenner

    Developed a vaccination for smallpox.

  • Average life span

    40-50 years.
  • Period: to

    19th Century

  • Blood transfusion

    The first successful blood transfusion was performed in 1818 on humans by James Blundell.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Became the first female physician in the United States.

  • Florence Nightingale

    He was the founder of modern nursing by establishing sanitary nursing units during the Crimean war and opened a school and home for nurses at St. Thomas hospital in London and also began professional education.

  • American Red Cross

    International Red Cross was founded in 1863

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered roentgenograms (X-rays).

  • Average life span

    40-60 years.
  • Period: to

    20th Century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin.

  • Open heart surgery

    The first heart-lung machine was used fir a open-heart surgery.

  • Transplants

    -The first liver transplant (1963)
    -the first lung transplant (1964)
    -the first heart transplant (1968)

  • CAT SCAN

    The first computerize axial tomography scan was developed.

  • Test tube baby

    The first “test tube” baby was borne in England named, Louise Brown.

  • Average life span

    60-70 years.