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History of healthcare - Mittag

By Erin05
  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by?

    Evil spirts
  • Treatments for sick
    3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Blood letting
    Exorcism
    Prayer and Devine intervention
  • Medicines used today
    3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis - Used for heart conditions
    Quinine - Controls fever, relives musical pain, and helps prevent malaria
    Belladonna and Atropine - Relives musical pain
    Morphine - Treats severe pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records - Ancient Egyptians had the earliest accurate records.
    Who are physicians? - Workers and artist who had noble and sacred missions to save people.
    How did they heal? - Splinting fractures, bloodletting with leaches medication.
  • Telemedicine
    2022 BCE

    Telemedicine

    It improves communication between doctors and allows the patients quicker results.
  • Genetic research
    2022 BCE

    Genetic research

    Genetic research eliminates the possibilities of disabling diseases.
  • Improving nursing care
    2022 BCE

    Improving nursing care

    Many advances are being made in patients care related to the role of the nurse.
  • Assistant living centers
    2022 BCE

    Assistant living centers

    These facilities are making improvements to meet the physical, emotional, and mental needs of our senior citizens.
  • Attentive medicine
    2022 BCE

    Attentive medicine

    Doctors are more widely excepting alternative medicine or practices such as acupuncture as part of healing.
  • Technology
    2022 BCE

    Technology

    Portable and hand held devices help with diagnosis, record keeping, and research.
  • Period: 2001 BCE to 2022 BCE

    21st centuries

  • Ben Carson
    1987 BCE

    Ben Carson

    He does surgeries on the brains to stop seizures, and separates connected twins at birth.
  • Christian Barnard
    1968 BCE

    Christian Barnard

    He created the first successful heart transplant.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson
    1962 BCE

    Francis Crick and James Watson

    They discovered the molecular structure of DNA.
  • Albert Sabin
    1961 BCE

    Albert Sabin

    He discovered a live polio virus which is more effective.
  • Jonas Salk
    1955 BCE

    Jonas Salk

    He discovered a vaccine for polio.
  • Gerhard Domagk
    1945 BCE

    Gerhard Domagk

    He discovered sulfonamide compounds.
  • Sigmund Freud
    1930 BCE

    Sigmund Freud

    He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming
    1928 BCE

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    He created penicillin.
  • Anesthesia
    1925 BCE

    Anesthesia

    It helps prevent patients from waking up during a painful surgery.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen
    1920 BCE

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    He discovered X-rays.
  • Paul Ehrlich
    1912 BCE

    Paul Ehrlich

    He discovered a treatment for syphilis.
  • Robert Koch
    1910 BCE

    Robert Koch

    He discovered the culture plate method to identify pathogens and introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation when trying to prevent diseases.
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture - Practiced since the Stone Age, an Ancient art of using tools to heal.
  • Joseph Lister
    1895 BCE

    Joseph Lister

    He developed asepsis to keep an area clean before and during surgeries.
  • Joseph Lister
    1895 BCE

    Joseph Lister

    He was the first to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski
    1892 BCE

    Dmitri Ivanovski

    He discovered viruses.
  • Louis Pasteur
    1885 BCE

    Louis Pasteur

    He was the father of microbiology, discovered the pasteurization, and the vaccine for rabies.
  • Florence Nightingale
    1860 BCE

    Florence Nightingale

    She was the founder of modern nursing.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis
    1860 BCE

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    He identify the cause of child bed fever.
  • Period: 1801 BCE to 2000 BCE

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Rene Laennec
    1799 BCE

    Rene Laennec

    He invented the stethoscope.
  • Edward Jenner
    1796 BCE

    Edward Jenner

    He discovered a vaccine for small pocks.
  • Joseph Priestley
    1755 BCE

    Joseph Priestley

    He discovered oxygen, and it’s role in reparation.
  • Medical students learning
    1750 BCE

    Medical students learning

    They attended lectures and labs, they observe patients from the bedside, and dissected bodies after the patient died.
  • Ben Franklin
    1730 BCE

    Ben Franklin

    He discovered bifocals, and the fact the colds can be spread from person to person,
  • Period: 1701 BCE to 1800 BCE

    18th century

  • Apothecaries
    1675 BCE

    Apothecaries

    The first form of a pharmacy.
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    1666 BCE

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    He discovered the microscope.
  • William Harvey
    1628 BCE

    William Harvey

    He described the circulation of the blood and the pumping of the heart.
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563 BCE

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    He discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat.
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550 BCE

    Gabriele Fallopius

    He discovered the Fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
  • Leonardo De Vinci
    1515 BCE

    Leonardo De Vinci

    He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • Period: 1501 BCE to 1700 BCE

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Rebirth
    1450 BCE

    Rebirth

    Universities - The universities and medical schools for research were established.

    Dissection - Now is acceptable practice to study the human body.
    Books - It allowed research to be shared with others.
  • Period: 1350 BCE to 1650 BCE

    Renaissance

  • Epidemics
    1100 BCE

    Epidemics

    Epidemics such as - Black deaths, small pocks, and tuberculosis killed millions of people during this time period.
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause nature vs. spiritual - Ancient Greeks proved that diseases have natural causes and were not caused by supernatural spirits.
    Dissection - Religious customs prohibited dissection.
    Hippocrates - Hippocrates is the father of medicine who’s research supported the theory of natural causes for illness.
  • Period: 800 BCE to 1400 BCE

    Middle age

  • How did the treat disease?
    700 BCE

    How did the treat disease?

    They treated diseases mostly through prayers, and custodial care.
  • stopped the study of medicine, why?
    500 BCE

    stopped the study of medicine, why?

    Medicine was only practiced in convents and monasteries because the Huns believe life and death were in Gods hands. They did not care how the body works.
  • Period: 400 BCE to 800 BCE

    The dark age

  • Ancient Romans
    100 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation systems - They built Aqueducts to bring in clean water and build sewers to take wast away, and the built public baths with filtering systems.
    Organize medical care - They were the first to send medical care with the army.

    Hospital Development - They had rooms in there houses for the sick which then lead to them making a hospital later on.
  • Period: to

    Early beginnings