History of healthcare Miller

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • Disease caused by
    3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    Evil spirits
  • Treatments for sick
    3606 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Bloodletting with leaches
    Acupuncture with stone tools
    Herbal therapies
  • medicines used today
    3600 BCE

    medicines used today

    -Digitals can increase blood flow throughout your body & reduces swelling in your hands and ankles
    -Quinine works by killing the parasite or preventing it from growing
    -Belladonna and Atropine act as competitive antagonist that block the central nervous system
    -Morphine is used to relieve moderate to sever pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records- medicine in Egypt was understood as a combination of practical techniques and magical incantations. They used bandages, splints and even the broken bones in surgical procedures were described through magic spells.
  • Ancient Chines
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chines

    Acupuncture started in China about 3000 years ago. The first document of acupuncture was described as an organized system of diagnosis & treatment.
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    The main under standing of natural causes of sickness was being too hot, cold, dry or wet disturbed the balancebettween the humors, resulting illness. The Hippocrates focused on the natural treatment to approach the disease.
    Dissection was banned in Greece because human dissection was considered t be blasphemous.
  • Ancient Romans
    100

    Ancient Romans

    The romans had a complex system of sewers covered by stones, much like modern sewers. Ancient romans were the first to organize health care by providing treatments for solders, which was the first hospital
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Ages

  • Stoped the Study of Medicine
    500

    Stoped the Study of Medicine

    Due to lack of scientific understanding they stoped the study of medicine. Training physicians and medical students made new discoveries that fit old theories.
  • How do they treat disease?
    700

    How do they treat disease?

    They treated them by suppressions, religion, and herbal remedies.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • Epidemics
    1100

    Epidemics

    common diseases were dysentery, malaria, diphtheria, flu, typhoid, small pox and leprosy.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth
    1450

    Rebirth

    European Universities had great intellectual and religious influence like rebirth.even though the Catholic church prohibited dissection scientist performed it to understand the body.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci focused on the art of human anatomy . He injected the blood vessels and cerebral ventricles with wax for preservation.
  • Gabriel Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriel Fallopius

    his contributions to neuroanatomy laid the foundation for others. He also discovered and named manny parts of the human body.
  • Bartolomeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolomeo Eustachio

    He spent most of his career in Rome where he taught anatomy. he was the first who described the structure of the dental pulp , periodontal membrane, thoracic duct, abducens nerve, and adrenal glands.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    He was an English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation the human body and provided experiments and argued to prove this.
  • Antonie van leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van leeuwenhoek

    He discovered blood cells, and was the first person to see living sperm cells of animals.
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    Apothecary is a mostly archaic term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons, and patients.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    He was also a medical activist and inventor championing small pox inclusion, taking a leading role in founding hospitals.
  • medical students learning

    medical students learning

    The medical college of Peiping was founded the first medical school in china. by the twelfth century.
  • joseph priestley

    joseph priestley

    He invented carbonated water and the rubber eraser, identified a dozen chemical compounds, and wrote an important early paper about electricity.
  • Edward jenner

    Edward jenner

    He made the concept of vacations including creating the small pox vaccine.
  • Rene laennec

    Rene laennec

    He invented the stethoscope.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th century

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    She dedicated her life to the treatment of the sick and frail, changed the design of hospitals, and developed the field of preventive medicine.
  • Ignaz semmelweiser

    Ignaz semmelweiser

    He was the first physician in medical history who demonstrated that puerperal fever which was contagious and could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand washing.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    He pioneered the study of molecular asymmetry, discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease, and originated the process of pasteurization.
  • Dmitri Ivanovsky

    Dmitri Ivanovsky

    He contributed in microbiology.
    He determined that the infection was mosaic disease, which was believed at the time to be caused by bacteria.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    He reduce the incidence of wound infection by the introduction of antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann

    He introduced the steam sterilization of instruments and dressings.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    He won the Nobel prize for investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    He transfers blood serum with antibodies to treat and counteract diphtheria.
  • Wilhelm röntgen

    Wilhelm röntgen

    His discovery of the X-ray revolutionized the modern practice of medicine in ways that he could never imagined.
  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Anesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical purposes.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    He discovered penicillin which started the antibiotic revolution.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk

    He discovered sulfonamides could be used to counter act bacteria that cause blood poising.
  • Jonas salk

    Jonas salk

    He was an American medical researcher who discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine.
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    He was famous all over for his development of the oral polio vaccine.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    They marked a milestone in the history of science and gave rise to modern molecular biology,
  • Christiaan Barnard

    Christiaan Barnard

    He led the team that performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant.
  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson

    He figured in the revival of the hemispherectomy, a drastic surgical procedure in which part or all of one hemisphere of the brain is removed to control severe pediatric epilepsy.
  • circadian clock

    circadian clock

    Studying a tiny cluster of nerve cells behind the eye.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Protein Transfer

    Protein Transfer

    Transfer of proteins separated in a gel by electrophoresis to a solid support matrix.
  • Kidney Failure Markers

    Kidney Failure Markers

    Persistent increased protein in the urine two positive tests over 3 or more months.
  • 3D printing body parts

    3D printing body parts

    Taking stem cells from the patient and printing them on a layer of hydrogel to form a tendon or ligament.
  • Unlock in Blood Brian Barrier

    Unlock in Blood Brian Barrier

    Impedes the delivery of large drug molecules . Several studies have shown that it can be non-invasively opened by applying low intensity focused ultrasound in it.