History Of Healthcare

Primitive Time (4000-3000 BC)

4000 BCE

-Illness from demons
-herbs and plants were medicine

Ancient Egyptians (3000-300 BC)

3000 BCE

Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records, Called for the gods to heal them when disease occurred. Physicians were priests who studied medicine and surgery in temple medical schools.

Renaissance (1350-1650 AD)

1350 BCE

This is the rebirth of the science of medicine, Artist Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw the human body more realistically. First book on dietetics written by Issac Judaeus Michael Servetus Described the circulatory system in the lungs.

Ancient Greeks (1200-200 BC)

1200 BCE

This is important because it developed an organized method to observe the human body,recorded signs and symptoms of many diseases,created a high standard of ethics, the oath of Hippocrates, used by physicians today.

Middle Ages (800-1400 AD)

800 BCE

Based diagnoses on observations of the signs and symptoms of disease and developed criteria for distinguishing between small pox and measles in 910 AD.

Ancient Romans (753 BC-410 AD)

753 BCE

This is important to healthcare because it created aqueducts to carry clean water to the cities.

Ancient Chinese

300 BCE

Believed in the need to cure the spirit and nourish the entire body.
This remains important today, when holistic health methods stress treating the entire patient.

Dark Ages (400-800 AD)

1300

I think this is important because this is the study of Medications also monks and priest provided custodial care for sick people.

16th and 17th centuries

1500

I think this is important because at this period of time diseases were still not known, and many people still died from infections and puerperal (childbirth) fever. But in (1510-1590), a French surgeon,known as the Father of Modern Surgery established the use of ligatures to blind(use of thread or suture to tie off arteries and stop bleeding.

18th Century (1600-1800)

1600

This is important because In this time period when a lot of the things were discovered and invented the first thermometer was invented in 1714 by Gabriel Fahrenheit and Joseph Priestly discovered the element oxygen in 1774. Josh Hunter an English surgeon established scientific surgical procedures.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

1632

is one of several individuals who are called he "Father of Microbiology." he discovered bacteria and other microsopic organisms.

Benjamin Franklin

1784

Invented bifocals for glasses

Edward Jenner

1798

He developed a vaccination for smallpox

19th century

1800

Established efficient and sanitary nursing units during Crimean War in 1854,Opened Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital in London in 1860 also began the professional education of nurses.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

1820

Known as the founder of modern nursing, in 1854 she led 38 nurses to modern nursing.

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

1822

Was a French chemist and biologist, he is also called "Father of Microbiological Science and Immunology."

Clara Barton (1821-1912)

1881

The founder of the America red cross in 1881 during the American Civil War she volunteered to provide aid to wounded soldiers.

20th Century

1901

In the mid-20th century was characterized by new biological treatments, such as antibiotics.

Francis Crick and James Watson

1962

They both shared the Nobel Prize in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins for discover the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

21st Century

1991

Steve Snyder founded 21st Century Healthcare in 1991, because he found a market opportunity in the healthcare industry