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History of Healthcare Mittag

By 24samittag
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive Time

  • 3900 BCE

    Important medicines used today

    Still used today is morphine for pain and digitalis for the heart
  • 3800 BCE

    Believed disease was caused...

    They believed disease was caused by demons and supernatural creature.
  • 3700 BCE

    Average life span

    Average lifespan was 20 years
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • 2900 BCE

    How do they heal?

    Called upon the gods to heal and cure them
  • 2800 BCE

    Who are the 1st physician? Who are physicians?

    Physicians were the priest. The physician was Imhotep.
  • 2700 BCE

    Average lifespan

    Average lifespan is 20 to 30 years.
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

  • 1600 BCE

    Dissection (Beliefs and results)

    Religion prohibitions against dissection result in inadequate knowledge of the body structure
  • 1500 BCE

    Importance of WHOLE body

    believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirits and nourishing the body.
  • 1400 BCE

    Average timespan

    Average Lifespan was 20 - 30 years
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

  • Period: 753 BCE to 410 BCE

    ancient Roman

  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates is the father of medicine. Developed an organized method to observe the body. recorded signs and symptoms of many diseases. Created a high standard of ethics, the oath of Hippocrates is the oath used by physician today.
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy.
  • 370 BCE

    Average Lifespan

    Average lifespan is 25 to 35.
  • 300 BCE

    Average lifespan

    Average lifespan is 25 - 35 years
  • 200 BCE

    Sanitation System

    Created Aqueduct to carry clean water to cities. built sewers to carry waste material away from the cities. used filtering system in public bathrooms to prevent disease. drained marshes to reduce the incidence of malaria.
  • 100 BCE

    Hospitals

    Early hospital developed when physicians cared for ill people in rooms in their home. later hospitals were religious and charitable institutions housed in monasteries and convents.
  • 400

    Prohibited study of medicine, why?

    Emphasis was placed on saving the soul. study of medicine was banned.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    How do they treat disease?

    Prayer and divine intervention were used to treat people.
  • 600

    Average lifespan

    average lifespan 20 to 30 years
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 850

    Medical Universities

    Physician began to obtain knowledge at medical University in the 9th century
  • 900

    Pandemic

    a bubonic plague killed 3/4 of Asia and Europe population.
  • 910

    Rhazes

    based diagnosis on observation of the sign and symptoms of disease. developed criteria for distinguishing between small pox and measles. suggested that blood was the cause of many diseases. began uses of animal gut for suture material.
  • 1000

    average lifespan

    Average lifespan 20 - 35 years.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1401

    Rebirth

    Rebirth of the science of medicine.
  • 1425

    Dissection

    dissection of the body began to understand anatomy and physiology better.
  • 1450

    Average lifespan

    Average lifespan is 30 to 40 years.
  • 1450

    Artists

    artists used dissection in order to draw the human body more realistic.
  • 1501

    Cause of Disease

    Cause of diseases were still unknown.. many died from infection and childbirth.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th Century

  • 1510

    Father of Modern surgery

    established use of ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding. eliminated use of boiling oil to cauterize. improved treatment of fractures and prompted use of artificial limbs.
  • 1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    identified the fallopian tube in the female body. described the tympanic membrane in the ear.

  • Average lifespan

    average lifespan is 35 to 45 years
  • Period: to

    17th Century

  • William Harvey

    Described the circulation of the blood to and from the heart.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    invented the microscope.

  • Apothecaries

    They were the early pharmacist. they made prescriptions and sold medicine.

  • Average lifespan

    Average lifespan is 35 to 45 years
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Created the first mercury thermometer.

  • James Lind

    prescribed lime juice to prevent Scurvy.

  • Edward Jenner

    developed a vaccination for smallpox.

  • Average Lifespan

    Average lifespan was 40 - 50 years
  • Period: to

    19th Century

  • Blood Transfusion

    First Blood transfusion was preformed on humans by James Blundell

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Became the first female physician in the United state.

  • Florence Nightingale

    founder of modern nursing.

  • American Red Cross

    Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen (1895AD)

    Discovered X - Rays

  • Average Lifespan

    Average lifespan is 40 to 60 years old
  • Period: to

    20th Century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming (1928AD)

    discover penicilline

  • Open heart surgery

    The first heart - lung machine was used for open heart Surgery.

  • Transplants

    First Liver transplant, first lung transplant, and Kidney transplant

  • CAT Scan

    the first can scan was developed

  • Test tube baby

    The first test tube baby was born in England.

  • Average Lifespan

    Average lifespan was 60 to 70