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History of Healthcare Portier

By abby.port
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Diseases caused by
    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the sick

    Treatments for the sick
    -Blood letting
    -Prayer
    -Acupuncture
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Medicines used today
    Digitalis
    -heart medicine
    Quinine
    -controls fever and muscle spasms
    Belladonna and atropine
    -poisonous muscle spasm relief
    Morphine
    -medicine for pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Heath records
    -earliest people to have accurate records
    Who are the physicians?
    -priests
    How did they heal?
    -drain blood by wound
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Development of acupuncture
    -from the Stone Age treated illness with stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual
    -they first studied that illnesses are natural not spiritual
    Dissection
    -religions did not allow people to be dissected
    Hippocrates
    -studied the outside body on symptoms of diseases
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    Sanitation Systems
    -wearing masks and equipment clean
    Organize medical care
    -first to organize soldiers in hospitals
    Hospital development
    -open to the people for healthcare in hospitals
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stoped the study of medicine

    Stoped the study of medicine
    Monks and presets had no interest in the body. They believed life and death were in Gods hands.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    How do they treat disease?
    They treatment mostly was prayer. Medicine was a mixture of herbs.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics
    The disease the Bubonic plague affected many people at the same time.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Rebirth
    Universities
    -schools for studying the body
    Dissection
    -dissection of the body is allowed
    Books
    -printing press created more books to the public for knowledge
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

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

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Gabriele Fallopius
    Discovered fallopian tubes.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    Discovered the Eustachian tube leading from the ear to the throat.

  • William Harvey

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

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
    Invented the microscope and found there is life smaller eyes can see. He found out how teeth decay.

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    Early pharmacies started forming for drugs and spices.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Discovered bifocals and colds are contagious.

  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning
    Learned in classroom and hands on working with dead bodies to discover illnesses.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    Discovered oxygen and how it’s used in plants.

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered the vaccination for small pox.

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invented the stethoscope.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    Volunteered in hospitals to care for soldiers.

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Identified childbed fever. Hand washing became more common.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Discovered microorganisms were everywhere and cause disease. Created a vaccine for rabies.

  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Microorganisms cause infections.

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski
    Discovered diseases are caused by microorganisms and called viruses.

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann
    Invented asepsis.

  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Discovered lots of disease causing organisms. Introduced sanitation.

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    Discovered the effects of medicine on disease causing microorganisms.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Discovered X-rays.

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    The invention of anesthesia happened. Before doctors would give them alcohol or herbs before a surgery.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Found out that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    Discovered sulfanilamide compounds that kills bacteria.

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered that immunity to poliomyelitis would come from a dead polio.

  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    He 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
    Did the first heart transplant.

  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson
    Separates Siamese twins.

  • Stopping Bleeding

    Stopping Bleeding
    After 9/11 doctors found better ways to stop bleeding.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Artificial Liver

    Artificial Liver
    An artificial liver was made of stem cells.

  • Robotic Exoskeletons

    Robotic Exoskeletons
    A wrist remote function for robotic exoskeletons.

  • 3-D Printed Body Parts

    3-D Printed Body Parts
    The first successful 3-D printed body part.

  • Artificial Pancreas

    Artificial Pancreas
    Good for type 1 diabetes for their autoimmune system.