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History of Health Care Malicoat

By 23samalicoat
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive Time

  • 3900 BCE

    Important Medicine

    Important Medicine still used today are morphine for pain, and digitalis for the heart
  • 3800 BCE

    Disease

    Believed diseases were caused by sprits and demons.
  • 3700 BCE

    Average life span

    The average life span was 20.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • 2900 BCE

    How did they heal?

    The Egyptians called upon the gods to come and heal them.
  • 2800 BCE

    Who are physicians?

    Priests were the common physicians. They studied medicine in temple. Historians think Imhotep was the first physician.
  • 2700 BCE

    Average life span

    Average life span was 20-30 years.
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

  • 1600 BCE

    Dissection

    Religion prohibited dissection which resulted inadequate knowledge of the body structure.
  • 1500 BCE

    The Body

    Believed that the whole body needed to be treated by curing the sprit and nourishing the body.
  • 1400 BCE

    Life span

    Average life span was 20-30 years.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

  • Period: 753 BCE to 410

    Ancient Romans

  • 500 BCE

    Treating disease

    They used prayer and divine intervention to treat disease.
  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates is called the Father of Medicine:
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Dissected animals and is titled the founder of comparative anatomy. Also believed illnesses a result of natural cases.
  • 370 BCE

    Life span

    Average life span was 25-35 years
  • 200 BCE

    Sanitation System

    Created aqueducts to carry clean water to the cities. Built sewers to carry waste materials away from them cities.
  • 100 BCE

    Hospitals

    Early hospitals had physicians that cared for the ill in their rooms in their homes
    Later hospitals were religious and charitable institutions.
  • 300

    Life span

    25-35 years
  • 400

    Medicine prohibited?

    Medicine was prohibited because emphasis was put on savings the soul.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Ages

  • 600

    Life span

    Average life span was 20-30 years
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • 850

    Medical universities

    Physicians began to attend universities around the 9th century.
  • 900

    Pandemic

    The bubonic plague affected over 3/4 of the world population. Europe and Asia were the most effected.
  • 910

    Rhazes

    An Arab physicians, that became Arab Hippocrates.
  • 1000

    Life span

    Average was 20-35 years old
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1401

    Rebirth

    Rebirth of the science medicine
  • 1425

    Dissection

    Dissection of the body allowed better understanding of the anatomy and physiology.
  • 1450

    Artists

    Michelangelo and Da Vinci used dissection to draw a more accurate representation of the human body.
  • 1475

    Life span

    Average was 30-40 years
  • 1501

    Cause of disease

    Cause of disease were unknown but most people died from infections and childbirth.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th Century

  • 1510

    Father of Modern Surgery

    Ambroise Pare, a French surgeon.
  • 1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    Identified fallopian tubes in women
    Described the tympanic membrane in ear

  • Life span

    Average was 35-45 years
  • Period: to

    17th Century

  • William Harvey

    Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope in 1666.

  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacist made, prescribed, and sold medications

  • Life span

    Average was 35-45 years
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714

  • James Lind

    Prescribed lime juice with vitamin C to prevent scurvy in 1795

  • Edward Jenner

    Developed vaccination for small pox.

  • Life span

    40-50 years
  • Period: to

    19th Century

  • Blood transfusion

    First successful blood transfusion was preformed on humans in 1818.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    First female physician

  • Florence Nightingale

    First training program for nurses in Germany, provided Florence with her training. Founder of modern nursing.

  • American Red Cross

    Dorothea Dix created the International Red Cross.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays.

  • Life span

    40-60 years
  • Period: to

    20th Century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin in 1928

  • Open Heart Surgery

    First successful heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard in 1968

  • Transplants

    First successful kidney transplant was performed by Joesph Murray in 1955
    First successful lung transplant was preformed by James Hardy in 1964
    First successful heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard in 1968

  • CAT Scan

    Computerized axial tomography was invented.

  • Test Tube Baby

    First baby born in a test tube in England in 1978. Her name was Louise Brown.

  • Life span

    40-60 years