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History of Health Care Barry

By 27brbarry
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused By

    Diseases Caused By
    Evil Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the Sick

    Treatments for the Sick
    Tribal ceremonies to rid evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Medicines Used Today
    Digitalis - treats heart conditions
    Quinine - controls fever, relieves muscle spasms and helps prevent malaria.
    Belladonna and atropine - relieve muscle spasm, and GI pain
    Morphine - helps prevent severe pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    They were the first people to keep accurate health records. Priest acted as physicians, and the people would heal by using medicine to heal disease, and did bloodletting with the use of leeches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    They were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies. Their methods eventually developed and are still used today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    They were the first to believe that diseases may have natural, rather than spiritual, causes.
    Their religion did not allow them to dissect.
    He was the father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    They brought clean water to their cities through water ways.
    They sent medical equipment and physicians to their armies.
    Roman physicians kept a room in their house for the ill, and that was the beginning of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stop the study of medicine, why

    Stop the study of medicine, why
    The church believed that life and death was in gods hands.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    How do they treat disease?
    The primary treatment was prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics
    Caused millions of deaths
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    Rebirth?
    Universities - used for medical research
    Dissection - They accepted the dissection of the body
    Books - the greater access to knowledge from research
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopuis

    Gabrielle Fallopuis
    Discovered the fallopian tube
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    Discovered the Eustachian tube

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    Used his knowledge to understand physiology

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
    Invented the microscope

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    Apothecaries were engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices form the East.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Discovered bifocals, and he found colds could be passed from person to person.

  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning
    Attended lectures in the classroom and observed patients at the bedside.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    Discovered the element oxygen

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered a method of vaccination

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Identified the sauce of childbed fever

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    Saved a lot of people in the war

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski
    Discovered some diseases cannons be seen with a microscope

  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Used carbolic acids used on wounds

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann
    Developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Discovered many disease causing organisms

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    Discovered the effect of medicine on diseases causing organisms

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Discovered x-rays

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    Early physicians used herbs, alcohol and hashish to relieve the pain

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria

  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    Discovered the conscious and unconscious

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    Discovered sulfonamide

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered that the dead polio virus 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 molecular structure of DNA

  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard
    Performed the first successful heart transplant

  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson
    Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Bionic Prosthetics

    Bionic Prosthetics
    People without limbs now have the opportunity to replace them with a fully functional device

  • Laparoscopic Surgery

    Laparoscopic Surgery
    This minimally invasive surgery is done through one or more small incisions using small tubes and tiny cameras and instruments.

  • Virtual Reality (VR)

    Virtual Reality (VR)
    Over 200 hospitals in the United States are now using VR to help patients in a number of ways

  • 3-D Printed Body Parts

    3-D Printed Body Parts
    In 2014, the company Organovo offered the first commercially available 3D-bioprinted human livers and kidneys

  • Artificial Organs

    Artificial Organs
    resources are being devoted to growing artificial organs in labs.