History of healthcare

By 26avpeters
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    They use tribal ceremonies to get rid of the evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis- can be given by injection, intravenously, or pill form
    Quinine- is from bark of the cinchona tree
    Belladonna and atropine- from poisonous nightshade plant
    Morphine- from opium poppy
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records- keep accurate records
    Who are physicians- priest
    How did they heal- medicine
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture- treat illnesses and diseases with stone tool
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illnesses cause natural vs. spiritual- observed and searched new information that causes illnesses
    Dissection- did not allow body’s to be dissected
    Hippocrates- father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation systems- clean water into cities, built sewers, built public baths and filtering systems
    Organize medical care- kept rooms in houses for sick, sent medical equipment to care for wounded soldiers
    Hospital development- public buildings were established
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped study of medicine

    Why- believed life and death was in gods hands
  • 700

    Treat disease

    How- prayer, medication such as herbal mixtures
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths, happened because people were not vaccinated
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities- medical schools for research
    Dissection- accepting dissection for study
    Books- allowing more access to knowledge and research
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied, recorded anatomy of body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes of females
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered tube from ear to throat

  • William Harvey

    Able to describe circulation of blood and pumping of heart

  • Antoine von leeuwenhoek

    Invented microscope, discovered there is life smaller than eye can see, found bacteria that causes tooth decay

  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies, engaged in flourishing trade in drugs along with spices, came from the east
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals, found cold can be passed person to person

  • Medical students learning

    Attended lectures in classes, observed patients at the bedside, dissected the body, observed disease process

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered element oxygen, plants refresh air

  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered method of vaccination for small pox

  • Rene Leannec

    Invented stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified cause of childbed fever

  • Florence nightingale

    Founder of modern nursing

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that microorganisms are present everywhere. Father of microbiology

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered some diseases can be caused by microorganisms. Called viruses.

  • Joseph lister

    First doctor to use antiseptic, discovered micro organisms caused infections

  • Ernst von bergmann

    Developed a way to keep area germ free before and during surgery.

  • Robert Koch

    Developed culture plate method. Introduced importance of cleanliness and sanitation this helps prevent spreading of diseases.

  • Paul ehrlich

    Discovered effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms

  • Wilhelm roentgen

    Discovered x-rays in 1895

  • Anesthesia

    Loss of feeling or sensation

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria

  • Sigmund freud

    Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of mind.

  • Gerard domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds. First medications effective to killing bacteria.

  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered a dead polio virus caused immunity to poliomyelitis. Paralyzed thousands adults and children.

  • Albert Sabin

    Used live polio virus vaccine, more effective.

  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Discovered molecular structure DNA.

  • Christian Barnard

    Performed first successful heart transplant

  • Ben Carson

    Performing hemispherectomies, surgery on brain to help stop seizures.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Advancements in medicines

    Ability to transplant organs
    Reattach severed body parts
    Caring for unborn fetus
    Gettin rid of disabling disease through genetic research
    Noninvasive ways for diagnosis