History of healthcare

Romans

753 BCE

The Romans developed early hospitals. This was important for the time (and in the current era). This is because it helped quarantine the sick. It also helped the public by getting less people than needed sick.

Father of medicine (pt 2)

460 BCE

Hippocrates also stressed the importance of observation. His observations of diseases helped foster modern medicine. He described diseases and also transcribed the treatment.

The father of medicine

460 BCE

Hippocrates was a greek philosopher who developed the Hippocratic oath. The Hippocratic oath was an ethics code he had developed that made a physician swear to a code of ethics. This is code in variation is used across all medical fields even today.

Romans (pt2)

410

The Romans developed sanitization methods. With the creation of sewer systems and public bath filtering the chances of getting an airborne disease lessened. It also promoted health so people were much healthier because they didn't have to live in their waste.

The middle ages

800

Arab physicians used their knowledge of chemistry to advance pharmacology. This is when they began to base their diagnoses on observations. They began connecting the dots as to what the signs of the disease were and its symptoms of it.

The renaissance

1350

The study of medicine in places that weren't in Asia wasn't as common. The dissection of the body was taboo up until this era. This was the rebirth of science and medicine. The study of anatomy and physiology developed deeply during this time with the help of artists (da Vinci and Michelangelo).

The middle ages (pt2)

1400

The doctors even began trying out surgeries on the people. They started doing cataract surgery and studied anatomy (later helping out the renaissance era). They studied the human eye in detail with the discoveries still being used today.

16th century

1599

The use of prosthetics was promoted. This opened up a whole new level of research in regard to medicine that people hadn't thought of (biomedical engineering),

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

1632

He was regarded as the father of microbiology. He had discovered that if he put glass together in a certain way he was able to see things his regular eye couldn't see. He had created the first ever microscope.

The renaissance (pt 2)

1650

This is also when the development of the printing press flourished. This allowed for knowledge to be much more accessible amongst scientists and doctors. Doctors no longer had to make the same discoveries to further develop their research.

17th century

1699

This was when apothecaries were developed. These are the blueprints of modern-day pharmacies. They learned to use herbs and plants to make medicine/treatments.

Anton van leeuwehoek

1723

Through his discovery and invention of the microscope, he was able to bacteria. He investigated all things and even founded the first study of plant anatomy. Which helped further the study of cells in the future.

18th century (pt2)

1799

The founding of the element oxygen was in these years too. This tied two studies together thus the creation of the study of biochemistry.

18th century

1799

These years were home to the first ever c-section. This allowed for women to have much easier childbirth and lower their risk of death. This also lowered the infant mortality rate.

19th century

1897

The education of nurses was developed, This making nurse an actual profession, Through this development with the nurse sanitation in nursing homes was also beginning to be prioritized.

19th century (pt2)

1899

The first-ever vaccine for rabies was created. This proves the idea that vaccines work and gives reason to create more limiting the number of deaths from diseases.

20th century

1900

The first ever battery-driven hearing aid was developed. The first ever successful open heart surgery was done, This was the gateway for transplant surgery because people could be open and operated on in the most sensitive area and still live.

20th century

1999

The creation of ABO blood groups. This system saves lives by giving the proper blood to those who lost it by matching the blood type. It also showed how O types are universal donors while people with a could only donate to a and b only to b.

21 century

2000

This created the first ever cloned monkey, This opened the field to genetically modified embryos and stem cells giving people the option to ivfs.

21st century (pt2)

2000

The first ever abortion pill was FDA-approved. This gave women more rights and autonomy over their own bodies. A woman had also given birth with the first ever uterus transplant.