History of Healthcare

  • Egyptians
    3000 BCE

    Egyptians

    The first people that we know of to keep accurate health records.
  • Chinese
    1700 BCE

    Chinese

    When people had pain or congestion, they used acupuncture to relieve it.
  • Romans
    753 BCE

    Romans

    The Romans were the first to learn the importance of cleanliness which led them to create health and sanitation systems.
  • Hippocrates
    460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Known as ''The Father of Medicine''.
  • Dark Ages
    Nov 11, 1347

    Dark Ages

    The breakout of the bubonic plague which killed 75% of the population.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Aug 24, 1511

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Used dissection while drawing a portrait of the human body.
  • William Harvey
    Apr 30, 1578

    William Harvey

    He was the first to find out how circulation of blood and from the heart was.
  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Inventor of the mercury thermometer.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Created a medicine that would get rid of smallpox.
  • James Parkinson

    James Parkinson

    The first to describe Paralysis Agitans
  • Florence Nightengale

    Florence Nightengale

    Founded modern nursing.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    When performing surgery, he would use disinfectants and antiseptics to clean the patient.
  • Alois Alzheimer

    Alois Alzheimer

    Diagnosed the disease that bears his name.
  • Gregory Mendel

    Gregory Mendel

    Patterns of heredity
  • Louis Pateur

    Louis Pateur

    Found out how to kill bacteria by pasteurizing milk.
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton

    At age 63, she founded the American Red Cross.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    He developed a way to identify pathogens by using the culture plate method.
  • William Roentgen

    William Roentgen

    The first person to discover what X rays were.
  • Rhazes

    Rhazes

    The first Arab physician to use an animal gut for suture material.
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Found out how to isolate radium in 1910.
  • Sir Alexander Flemming

    Sir Alexander Flemming

    The first to ever discover penicillin.
  • Charles Drew

    Charles Drew

    Pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large scale blood bank in the U.S.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Inventor of the polio vaccine
  • James Watson

    James Watson

    Won nobel prize-winning biophysical and researcher credited with discovering the double helix structure of DNA.
  • Elizabeth Stern

    Elizabeth Stern

    Identified 250 stages of a ceruical cells progression from normal to cancerous.