Hipke History of Healthcare Timeline

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Trephining
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    • digitalis
    • quinine
    • belladonna and atropine
    • morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    • accurate health records
    • the priests acted like physicians
    • heal disease, learned the art of splinting fractures, and bloodletting with leaches
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture to release pressure points.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    • illnesses might have natural causes or spiritual causes of disease.
    • religions did not allow dissection of the bodies
    • the anatomy and observation of the body instead.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    • kept a room in their house for the ill
    • wore a death mask They were paid by the Roman government to have the public building for the ill.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    • the church believed that life and death were in Gods hands
  • 700

    How did they treat disease?

    • they used herbal mixtures, and care was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1350

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    this alone killed 60 million people.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    • The building of university’s and medical schools for research
    • the search fro new ideas about disease rather then the unquestioning
    • the acceptance of dissection of the body for study
    • the development of the printing press and the publish of books, allowing the greater access to knowledge from research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    this man studied and record the anatomy of the body.
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Gabriele Fallopius
    She discovered the fallopian tubs from the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    he discovered the tube leasing from the ear to the throat

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    he was able to describe the circulation of the blood and the pumping of the heart

  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
    he invented the the microscope, established that there is life smaller than the eye can see.

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    these were called early pharmacies, they engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the east
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Frank

    Benjamin Frank
    his discovery’s include bifocals, and he found that colds could be passes from person to person

  • Medical students learning

    they would observe patients at the bedside, when a patient died they dissected the body and were able to observe the disease process

  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    discovered the element oxygen, he also observed the plants refresh air

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    discovered the vaccination for smallpox

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    She invented the stethoscope, it increased the ability to hear the heart and the lungs
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    identified the cause of childbed fever, it was a fever after birth

  • Florence Nightingale

    she had a big interest in healing the ill

  • Louise Pasteur

    knows as the “father of Microbiology”, discovered that tiny microorganisms are everywhere

  • Dimitri Ivanovski

    He discovered that some disease are caused by microorganisms that cannot been seen through a microscope

  • Joseph Lister

    he discovered that microorganisms cause infection, he became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during a surgery

  • Ernst von Bergmannn

    he developed asepsis, he knew that from others that germs cause infections in the wounds

  • Robert Koch

    discovered many disease causing organisms, he developed a cutie plate method to identify pathogens and also isolated bacterium that causes tuberculosis

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. His discovery brought the use of chemical's to fight the disease's.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    discovered the x-rays. This helped the deters find what was wrong with the patient.

  • Anesthesia

    before this medication, they chokes patron to cause unconsciousness to stop the pain if they did not have herbs. But now this medication puts the patient into a deep sleep so that they do not experience pain.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. This led to an understanding of psychosomatic illness.

  • Gerhard Domagk

    discovered sulfonamide compounds. The first medicines that effectively in killing of bacteria.

  • Jonas Salk

    discovered that a dead Palio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. This virus paralyzed thousand of adults and children.

  • Albert Sabin

    used a live polio virus vaccine with is more effective. This vaccine is used today to immunize babies against this dreaded disease.

  • Francis Crick & James Watson

    discovered the molecular structure of DNA, their discovery explained how DNA replicates and how heredity information is coded on it.

  • Christian Barnard

    performed the first successful heart transplant

  • Ben Carson

    continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins, he parroted surgeries on teh brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21 century

  • Medicine that are advanced in todays world

    • Aspirin
    • Opuim
    • Digitals
    • Quinine
    • Iodine