History of Healthcare Czarnecki

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    . In this time period they believed diseases and illness were caused by demons or supernatural spirits and treated patients with ceremonies to drive out evil spirits.
    . Life span was about 20 years.
    . Created important medicine used today
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    . Earliest people to keep accurate health records and “called upon the gods” to heal them when they got sick with diseases
    . Life span was about 20 to 30 years
  • 2725 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Physicians were also priests who studied in temple medical schools and learned about medicine and surgery. Imhotep= maybe first physician
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

    Religion prevented them from using cadavers to research the body which lead to little knowledge of the body and its structure.
    . Life span was about 20 to 30 years
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200

    Ancient Greeks

    . Began modern medical science
    . created high standard of ethics used by physicians today.
    . Life span was about 25 to 35 years
  • Period: 753 BCE to 410

    Ancient Romans

    . First to provide and organize medical care for injured soldiers, created early developed hospitals.
    . They also began public health and sanitation systems.
    . Life span was about 25 to 35 years
  • 460 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Hippocrates is called the father of medicine
    Aristotle dissected animals, became the founder of anatomy and believed illness was a result of natural causes.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Ages

    . They wanted to save the soul and prohibited the study of medicine.
    . Medications were mostly herbal mixtures.
    . Life span was about 20 to 30 years
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Ages

    . Began to study medical practices used by the Greeks and Romans
    . physicians began studying at medical universities in the 9th century.
    . Life span was about 20 to 35 years
  • 1346

    Middle Ages (Bubonic plague)

    Middle Ages (Bubonic plague)
    The Black Plague killed 3/4 of the population of Europe and Asia
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

    . Started using and researching medicine again.
    . started dissecting cadavers to learn more about the body.
    . Life span was about 30 to 40 years
  • 1440

    Renaissance (school)

    Renaissance (school)
    First chairs of medicine were created at Oxford and Cambridge
  • Period: 1500 to

    16th and 17th centuries

    . People were still dying from diseases and child birth.
    . They also started using ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding.
    . they had Discovered the Fallopian tubes and described the tympanic membrane in the ear.
    . Life span was about 35 to 45 years
  • Period: to

    18th Century

    .Benjamin Franklin created bifocals for glasses
    . Joseph Priestley had discovered the element of oxygen
    . Invented smallpox vaccine
    . Life span was about 40 to 50 years

  • 18th century (first mercury thermometer)

    18th century (first mercury thermometer)

  • 18th century (feeding tubes)

    18th century (feeding tubes)
    Feeding tubes were introduced
  • Period: to

    19th century

    . Barbers acted as dental surgeons and used leeches for treatment . opened the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses in London 1860
    . Life span was about 40 to 60 years

  • 19th century (blood transfusions)

    19th century (blood transfusions)
    First successful blood transfusion was preformed by James Blundell

  • 19th century (stethoscope)

    19th century (stethoscope)
    Rene Laennec created the stethoscope

  • 19th Century (first female physician)

    19th Century (first female physician)
    Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female physician
  • Period: to

    20th Century

    . Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the enzyme lysozyme
    . Open heart surgery was preformed
    . Transplants of the kidneys, livers, hearts, etc.
    . Sir Godfrey Hounsfield created the first CT scan using x-ray technology
    . Louise Joy Brown was the first test tube baby (IVF)
    . Life span was about 48 to 80 years