History of healthcare Jama

By Rukiajama
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseas caused by

    Supernatural spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Exorcise evil spirits
  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Earliest people to keep accurate health records.
    Priests acted as physicians.
    They used medicines to heal disease.
  • 1987 BCE

    Ben Carson

    Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizure.
  • 1968 BCE

    Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant.
  • 1962 BCE

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA, based on its known double helix. Their model served to explain how DNA replicates and how hereditary information is coded on it.
  • 1961 BCE

    Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective. This vaccine is used today to immunize babies against polio.
  • 1955 BCE

    Jonas Salk

    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. This virus paralyzed thousands of adults and children every year. It seemed to attack the most active and athletic people.
  • 1945 BCE

    Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds. These compounds were the first medications effective in killing bacteria.They changed the practice of medicine by killing deadly diseases.
  • 1930 BCE

    Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. He determined that the mind and body work together. This led to an understanding of psychosomatic illness (physical illness caused by emotional conflict). His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry.
  • 1928 BCE

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria.
  • 1925 BCE

    Anesthesia

    Anesthesia is the loss of feeling or sensation. Before the nineteenth century, pain was serious problem. Surgery was performed on patients without anesthesia. Ether, and Chloroform were discovered. These drugs have the ability to put people into deep sleep so that they do not experience pain during surgery.
  • 1920 BCE

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays in 1895. His discovery allowed doctors to see inside the body and helped the discover what was wrong with the patient.
  • 1912 BCE

    Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease- causing microorganisms. His treatment was affective against some micro-organisms but was not effective in killing other bacteria. His discoveries brought about the use of chemicals to fight disease.
  • 1910 BCE

    Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease-causing organisms. He developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and also isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. He also introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation in preventing the spread of disease.
  • 1905 BCE

    Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis. He developed a method to keep an area germ-free before and during surgery.
  • 1895 BCE

    Joseph Lister

    Learned about Pasteur’s discovery that micro-organisms cause infection. He became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery.
  • 1892 BCE

    Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. He determined that the mind and body work together.
  • 1885 BCE

    Louis Pasteur

    Known as the “Father of Microbiology,” discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere. Through his experiments and studies, he proved that microorganisms cause disease.
  • 1860 BCE

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever).
  • 1860 BCE

    Florence Nightingale

    She came from a cultured, middle-class family who opposed her interest in caring for the ill. During the Crimean war, she took 38 women to care for soldiers dying from cholera.
  • Period: 1801 BCE to 2000 BCE

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • 1799 BCE

    Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope. The first stethoscope was made of wood. It increased the ability to hear the heart and lungs, allowing doctors to determine if disease was present.
  • 1796 BCE

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox. His discovery saved millions of lived. His discovery also led to immunization and to preventive medicine in public health.
  • 1755 BCE

    Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen. He also observed that plants refresh air that has lost its oxygen, making it usable for respiration.
  • 1750 BCE

    Medical students learning

    When a patient died, students dissected the body and were able to observe the disease process. This led to a better understanding of the causes of illness and dead.
  • 1730 BCE

    Benjamin Franklin

    He Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox. His discovery saved millions of lives. His discovery also led to immunization and to preventive medicine in public health.
  • Period: 1701 BCE to 1800 BCE

    18th Century

  • 1675 BCE

    Apothecaries

    In additions, apothecaries, early pharmacies, started in this time. In medieval England, these apothecaries engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the East.
  • 1666 BCE

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope, establishing that there is life smaller than the eye can see. He scraped his teeth and found the bacteria that causes tooth decay.
  • 1628 BCE

    William Harvey

    Used this knowledge to understand physi-ology, and he was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.
  • 1563 BCE

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat (Eustachian tube)
  • 1550 BCE

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
  • 1515 BCE

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. See da Vinci’s depiction of the human body.
  • Period: 1501 BCE to 1700 BCE

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1450 BCE

    Rebirth

    The building of universities and medical schools for research.
    The acceptance of dissection of the body for study.
    The development of the printing press and the publishing of books. Allowing greater access to knowledge from research.
  • Period: 1350 BCE to 1650 BCE

    Renaissance

  • 1100 BCE

    Epidemics

    Diseases affecting many people at the same time. Terrible epidemics caused millions of deaths during this period.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    First to study the causes of disease and to determine that illnesses may have natural natural, rather than spiritual, causes. Dissection- Act or process of dividing taking apart. Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine.
  • Period: 800 BCE to 1400 BCE

    Middle Age

  • 700 BCE

    How do they treat disease?

    The primary treatment was prayer.
  • 500 BCE

    Why Stopped the study of medicine?

    because the church believed that life and death were in God’s hand, monks didn’t care how the body functioned.
  • Period: 400 BCE to 800 BCE

    The Dark Ages

  • Ancient Chinese

    First to use primitive acupuncture therapies.
    Learned to treat a variety of illness and disease with stone tools. Developed into the advanced practice of Chinese acupuncture.
  • Period: to

    21st century

    1. The possibility of eliminating disabling disease through genetic research.
    2. The ability to reattach severed body parts.
    3. The ability to use noninvasive techniques for diagnosis.
    4. The advancement in caring for the unborn fetus.
    5. The ability to transplant organs from a donor to a recipient
  • Period: to 399

    Ancient Times

  • Medicines used today

    Digitalis used for heartbeat
    Quinine used for fever
    Belladonna used for (GI) pain
    Morphine used for severe pain