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History of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    Disease caused by
    Caused by super natural spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Treatments for sick
    Preformed an exorcism/asked gods to heal them and they also used plants and herbs as medicine's
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Medicines used today
    Chewing leaves of a foxglove plant which slows the heart beat ,quinine which controles fever and relives muscle spasms, belladona and atropine which relieve muscle spasms and morphine which treats severe pain.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Earliest to keep accurate health records, priests were physicians, they used medicines to heal diseases they also used bloodletting
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient chinese

    Ancient chinese
    First to use primitive acupuncture therapies
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    -Medicine was considered an art not a profession
    -first to think that illness might have natural causes not spiritual ones
    -they researches and studied the body and understood the importance of it
    -hypocrates wrote the standard of ethics
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    • They were the begging of hospitals
    • 1st to start organizing things
    • they sorted out the ill and put them in separate rooms
    • they wore a death mash which they think protected them
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    What stopped the study of medicine

    What stopped the study of medicine
    They thought that illness has nothing to do with natural cause and they all thought it was in the hands of god so they stopped studying medicine
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    How do they treat disease
    -praying was the primary resolution
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics
    Plague, smallpox,diphtheria,syphilis, and tuberculosis caused millions of deaths
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Rebirth
    -New developments
    -rebirth of learning
    -building of university’s and medical schools
    -search for new ideas about diseases
    - development of books and printing press
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

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

    Gabriele fallopius

    Gabriele fallopius
    Discovered the Fallopian tubes of the email body
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    Discovered the tube going into the ear and the throat
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    Describes the circulation of blood pumping into and out of the hear
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    Traded drugs and spices
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    -Found that colds can be passed to person to person
    -discovered bifocals
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning
    New ways of teaching medicine
    Students would attend class to learn
    This lead to the understanding of death
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    Discovered the element oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered a vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Identified te cause of childbed fever
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    She took in 38 women to care for soldiers, she also volunteered at hospitals
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Discovered that microorganisms were everywhere. He also discovered that pasteurization kills bacteria in milk. He also created the vaccination for rabies.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski
    Discovered that some diseases were caused by microorganisms/ viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    He used carbonic acid to kill germs that caused infection in wounds. First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann
    Developed asepsis.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Discovered many disease- causing organisms. Introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation to prevent spread of disease
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing organisms
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Discovered x-rays
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    They put people into deep sleep during surgery so they don’t have pain. We use this today
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind and studied the the effects it had on the body
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    Discovered sulfonamide compounds.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered that a 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
    Separated Siamese twins and performed hemispherectomics to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • 5 advancements in medicine

    5 advancements in medicine
    -Gene Therapy for Hemoglobinopathies
    -the ability to transplant organs from a donar to a recipient
    -the ability to reattach served body parts
    -Anti-Smoking laws and Campaigns Reduce Public Smoking
    -the advancement in caring for the unborn fetus