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History of healthcare edwin

By Paigeedwin
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginning

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseased caused by

    Diseased caused by
    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the sick

    Treatments for the sick
    Blood letting
    Exorcism
    Prayer and Devine intervention
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Medicine used today
    Digitalis:
    -foxglove plant
    -pill form or injections
    -treat heart conditions Quinine:
    -controls fever, relives muscles spasms, and helps prevent malaria Belladonna and atropine:
    -relive muscle spasms Morphine:
    -treats pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Health records:
    -gods Who are physicians:
    -priests How do they heal:
    -Bloodletting with leeches
    -acupuncture therapies
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Development of acupuncture:
    -used to treat illnesses and diseases with stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Illness cause vs. nature spiritual:
    -considered an art
    -housed in sacred temples of healing Dissection:
    -did not allow bodies to be dissected Hippocrates:
    -the oath physicians need to take
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    Ancient Roman’s
    Sanitation system:
    -built sewers to carry out waste, along with public baths with a filtering system Organize medical care:
    -sent to wounded soldiers Hospital development:
    -begging of hospitals was created by housing I’ll in a room
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study if medicine

    Stopped the study if medicine
    Believed life and death were in gods hands
  • 700

    How did they treat disease

    How did they treat disease
    Prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics
    Bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Rebirth
    University’s:
    -search for new ideas about disease rather than unquestioning acceptance of disease as the will of god Dissection:
    -acceptance Books:
    -created and helped study the anatomy of the body
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    Gabrielle fallopius
    Discovered the Fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to throat

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    Was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    Invented the microscope

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    Trade in drugs and spices
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher.

  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning
    Not only learned but also observed and can dissect the body

  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    Discovered the element oxygen also observed that plants refresh air that has lost its oxygen

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19 and 20th centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    Founder of modern nursing

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Identified the cause of childbed fever along with the importance of washing your hands

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere

  • Dmitri ivanovski

    Dmitri ivanovski
    study of mosaic disease in tobacco, first detailed many of the characteristics of the organisms that came to be known as viruses.

  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Discovery that microorganisms cause infection and became the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery.

  • Ernst von Bergman

    Ernst von Bergman
    Developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Discovered many disease causing organisms

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Discovered X-rays

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    Nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform were discovered. These drugs have the ability to put people under during surgery with no pain.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Found that penicillin killed life-threat-ening Bactria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    Discovered sulfonamide compounds

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.

  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    Used a live polio virus vaccine.

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson
    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA.

  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard
    Preformed the first successful heart transplant

  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson
    Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispheres, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.

  • Advancements in medicine

    Advancements in medicine
    1)Gene therapy
    2)insulin
    3)vaccination
    4) Epidemiology
    5) 3D printing
  • Period: to

    21st century