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History of Health Care- Chlopek

By Rowennchlopek
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused By

    Diseases Caused By
    Evil Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments For The Sick

    Tribal Ceremonies to exorcise Evil Spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Digitalis, Quinine, Belladonna, Atropine, Morphine are all used in present time. Healthcare workers use these now to cure illnesses that were present in BC/BCE
    - Digitalis was used for the heart
    - Quinine controls fevers
    - Belladonna help GI
    - Morphine was used for pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Egyptians were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priests acted as the physicians, they used medicines to heal disease
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    The Ancient Chinese were the first to start acupuncture therapies, people still use this today
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    The medicine of the Ancient Greeks were considered art not just a job. They believed it was more natural to become ill then spiritual. The religion custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. The Hippocrates created an Oath that physicians still use to this day
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    The Romans learned from the Greeks that Sanitation and Organization Systems, they were very precise and kept everything in order. The Ancient Romans shaped what our current Healthcare field is like today.
  • 191

    Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medication on disease
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the Study of Medicine

    1000 years into the Dark Age medicine or healthcare was barely studied
  • 700

    How do they Treat Disease?

    Herbal Mixtures was the main source of medication since the stop of Medical Development
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics is a disease that affected many people at the same time
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

    Rebirth of medicine and dissection was excepted again
  • 1450

    Rebirth

    The Rebirth is considered the “rebirth” of learning, there were many different developments in healthcare.
    - University and medical schools became a thing
    - dissections became more popular and became a known thing
    - Books were published and lots more research was done
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Leonardo Da Vinci was a many of very many talents, he was very dominate in anatomy
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Gabriele discovered fallopian tubes of the woman
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo discovered the tube from the ear to the throat

  • William Harvey

    William was able to describe the circulation of blood and blood flow

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    He invented the Microscope

  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Franklin invented bifocals

  • Medical Student Learning

    Students attended lectures and observed patients

  • Joseph Priestley

    He discovered the element oxygen

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered vaccination for small pox

  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Discovered puerpal fever

  • Florence Nightingale

    Dedicated to nursing because of saving people from a war

  • Louis Pasteur

    Known as “Father of Microbiology,” discovered tiny microorganisms

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered diseases that were so microscopic you couldn’t see them with a microscope

  • Joseph Lister

    Became the first doctor to use antiseptic during a surgery

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    He isolated the bacteria that causes tuberculosis

  • Paul Ehrlich

    He discovered the effect of medicine on disease

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    He discovered X-Rays

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    Before the 19th century anesthesia was evolved and created

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Fleming found out that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria

  • Sigmund Freud

    He discovered the conscious and un-conscious parts of the brain/mind

  • Gerhard Domagk

    He discovered sulfonamide compounds (medications to eat the bacteria)

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis

  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    He used the first ever live polio virus vaccine

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    They discovered the molecular structure of the DNA strands

  • Christian Barnard

    Preformed the first ever successful heart surgery

  • Ben Carson

    He preformed the first ever surgery to stop brain seizures
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • More Education

    Now in present time there is a lot more research and a lot more schooling for future healthcare workers to make that work field very very successful

  • Doctors Providing and Caring

    Doctors now are often practicing Telemedicine

  • Communication

    Communication
    There is better communication between patients and doctors for there needs

  • Nurses and Technicians

    Nurses and Technicians
    Nurses can now provide at home care not just “in Hospital” care to patients in need

  • Opportunities

    There are way more opportunities for patients and doctors now in present time because of the huge advancements in medicine