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History of healthcare Sandor

  • Period: 4000 BCE to

    Primitive time

  • Important medicines still used today
    3900 BCE

    Important medicines still used today

    Podophyllum is used to remove growths on the body like warts
  • Believed disease was caused by
    3800 BCE

    Believed disease was caused by

    They believed it to be cause by an excess of bile and phlegm
  • 3700 BCE

    Average life span

    40-58 years old
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • 2900 BCE

    How do they heal

    Sometimes the had surgery’s, most of the time they would make ointments out of animals, and plants
  • Who are physician’s? Who was the first?
    2800 BCE

    Who are physician’s? Who was the first?

    Imhotep
  • 2700 BCE

    Average life span

    About 58 years
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

  • 1600 BCE

    Dissection (beliefs and results)

    The leader at that time named wang mang wanted the dismembering of a rebels body
  • Importance of the WHOLE body
    1500 BCE

    Importance of the WHOLE body

    It was important cause it was someone’s life
  • 1400 BCE

    Average life span

    Around 45
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

  • Hippocrates
    460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    He was the founder of medicine
  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

    He was the founder of Lyceum
  • 370 BCE

    Average life span

    The most average people would live to would be 4 years old
  • 400

    Prohibited study of medicine

    Because they believed illnesses and diseases were cured by praying and Devine intervention
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • How do they treat disease
    500

    How do they treat disease

    Going to church and praying
  • 600

    Average life span

    Around 35
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • Medical universities
    850

    Medical universities

    Studium generale
  • Pandemic
    900

    Pandemic

    hantavirus infection
  • Rhazes
    910

    Rhazes

    Smallpox
  • 1000

    Average lifespan

    35 years old
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth
    1401

    Rebirth

    Renaissance means rebirth this time period was called that because people started taking interest in learning ancient times like Ancient Greek and Rome
  • 1425

    Dissection

    Pulling the genome in opposite directions to dissect gene networks
  • Artist
    1450

    Artist

    Matteo Lappoli, Leonardo Da Vinci,
  • 1475

    Average life span

    69 years old
  • Cause of disease
    1501

    Cause of disease

    It was called the sweating sickness but no one has ever found out what it was caused from
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th century

  • Father of Modern surgery
    1510

    Father of Modern surgery

    Ambroise Paré
  • Gabriel Fallopius
    1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    The Fallopian tube was named after him
  • Average life span

    Just under 40 years old
  • Period: to

    17th century

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    He did research on blood flow in the human body
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    One of the first microscopist and microbiologist
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    A drug jar
  • Average life span

    About 35 years
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Gabriel Fahrenheit

    He invented the thermometer
  • James Lind

    James Lind

    He found out oranges and lemons were the cure for scurvy
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    He created the smallpox vaccine
  • Average life span

    Between 30 and 40 years
  • Period: to

    19th century

  • Blood transfusion

    Blood transfusion

    About 4 ounces of blood from someone’s arm was successfully transfused into another individual
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    She was the first woman in America do be awarded a medical degree
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    She was the founder of modern nursing
  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross

    Provides emergency assistance, and disaster relief
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    He discovered x-rays
  • Average lifespan

    Around 50
  • Period: to

    20th century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    He discovered penicillin
  • Open heart surgery

    Open heart surgery

    Claude Beck did the first ever open heart surgery
  • Transplants

    Lung transplant, liver transplant, and skin transplant
  • Cat scan

    It can detect diseases in your colon, and internal organs
  • Test tube baby

    It is when a egg that was fertilized outside of a woman’s body and then put back into a women’s body when fully developed
  • Average life span

    76.9