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History of Healthcare Skala

By 23emskala
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive Times

  • 3900 BCE

    Important Medicines still used Today

    Morphine
  • 3800 BCE

    Thought Disease was caused by...

    Gods to punish
  • 3700 BCE

    Average Lifespan

    20
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • 2900 BCE

    How do they heal?

    With ”magic”
  • 2800 BCE

    Who are physicians. Who was the 1st

    Priests. Imhotem.
  • 2700 BCE

    Average Lifespan

    20 - 30 years
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

  • 1600 BCE

    Dissection (Beliefs and Results)

    religion stopped dissection so there was inadequate information on the body
  • 1500 BCE

    Importance of the whole body

    thought they needed to cure the soul and nourish the body when sick
  • 1400 BCE

    Average Lifespan

    20-30 years
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

  • Period: 753 BCE to 420

    Ancient Romans

  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

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

    Average lifespan

    25-35 years
  • 200 BCE

    Sanitation System

    Aqueducts were used to carry way waist and stopped lost of people from getting sick.
  • 100 BCE

    Hospitals

    First in physicians' rooms in their houses. Later put in churches.
  • 300

    Average lifespan

    20-30
  • 400

    Prohibited study of medicine, why?

    Because they wanted to ”save the soul”.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    How do they treat diseases?

    With herbs
  • 600

    Average lifespan

    20-30
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 850

    Medical Universities

    Where physicians got all of their knowledge
  • 900

    Pandemic

    The bubonic plague of black plauge
  • 910

    Rhazes

    An Arab physician
  • 1000

    Average lifespan

    20-35
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1401

    Rebirth

    Of the science if medicine
  • 1425

    Dissection

    Began to further understand anatomy and physiology
  • 1450

    Artists Michel Angelo and Da Vinci

    Used dissection to draw the human body more realistically
  • 1475

    Average lifespan

    30-40
  • 1501

    Cause of disease

    Still unknown
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th Century

  • 1510

    Father of modern surgery

    Ambroise Pare
  • 1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    Found fallopian tubes and described the tympanic membrane in the ears

  • Average lifespan

    35-45
  • Period: to

    17th Century

  • Willam Harvey

    Described the flow of blood to and from the heart

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope

  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacists

  • Average lifespan

    35-45
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Created first mercury thermometer

  • James Lind

    Prescribed vitamin C in limes to prevent scurvy

  • Edward Jenner

    Made smallpox vaccine

  • Average lifespan

    40-50
  • Period: to

    19th Century

  • Blood transfusion

    Performed by James Blundell

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    First female physician

  • Florence Nightingale

    Founder of modern nursing

  • American Red Cross

    Created by Clara Barton

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays

  • Average lifespan

    40-60
  • Period: to

    20th Century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin

  • Open heart surgery

    When the first lung-machine was used for open heart sugery

  • Transplants

    Liver, lung, and heart

  • CAT scan

    Computerized axial tomography (CAT) was found

  • Test tube baby

    First test-tube baby born in England

  • Average lifespan

    60-70