History of heath care

By 27lirhode
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease Caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Tribal ceremonies
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis
    Quinine
    Belladonna and atropine
    Morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    The Egyptians were the earliest people to keep heath records. The priests acted as the physicians. They treated disorders by bloodletting with leeches and learned the art of slinging fractures
  • 1900 BCE

    ancient chinese

    they were the first people to use acupuncture therapies they learned to treat illness and disease with stone tools. there devlopment turned into what we now call acupuncture therapy
  • 900 BCE

    ancient greeks

    they found that illness may have natural causes rather then spiritual causes. Philosopher of Chalcedon and his younger contemporary Erasistratus of Ceos became the first ancient Greek physicians to perform systematic dissections of human.Hippocrates was a greek physicians who passed and is know as the father of medicine
  • 100

    ancient romans

    they wore makes with a spice-filled beak witch they thought would protect them from illness. they were the first people to send physicians with there armies to care for the wounded. hospitals first started as rooms in physicians homes to care for the ill
  • Period: 400 to 800

    dark age

  • 500

    stoped the study of medicine

    the study of medicine stooped for 1,000 years after the roman empire was conquered by the huns. it stooped because the church believed the life and death were up to god
  • 700

    how do they treat diseases

    the primery treatment was prayer or herble mixures.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Cause millions of deaths
  • 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

    he discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio discovered the tubes leading from the ear to the throat

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey used the knowledge to undertsand physiology and he was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek inveted the microscope

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries early pharrmacies started in this time
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin he founded bifocals, and he found that colds could be passed from person to perason

  • Medical students learning

    dent wher noe being taught about medicine in lactures in the classroom but also observeing patient at the bedside. this lead to a better understanding of illness and death.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley discovered the element of oxygen

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner discoverd the vaccination for samllpox. is discovery also led to immunization and to preventive medicine in public heath

  • rene laennec

    rene laennec invented the sethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centures

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis discover the cause of childbed fever (woman dieing after givingn birth).

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    Florence Nightingale was the first professional nurse

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur discovered there is tiny microorganisms are everywhere

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski discovered tobacco mosaic disease

  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Robert Koch discovered many disease-causing organisms

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    Paul Ehrlich found a chemical to treat syphilis

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    Before Anesthesia they would use herbs and alcohol. They would also choke people so they were unconscious

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Sir Alexander Fleming found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria

  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    Gerhard Domagk discovered sulfonamides could be used to counteract bacteria that cause blood poisoning

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Jonas Salkdisocvered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis

  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    Albert Sabin Discover the vaccine that is used to immunize babies against the dreaded disease

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the molecular structure of DNA

  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard preformed the first successful heart transplant

  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carsonis a pioneer in separating Siamese twins
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Oncology

    The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has had a tremendous impact on nearly every aspect of cancer research, Medscape reported.

  • HIV Treatments

    the FDA approved Atripla which combined three antiretroviral drugs into one which improved the treatment for AIDS

  • Self-care

    Today heathy is just related to a persons physical heath is also means a person mental heath

  • Bionic Prosthetics

    Bionic limbs such as hands, arms, feet, and legs can be positioned through the use of an app on the iPad or a computer are being made

  • Artificial Organs

    Artificial Organs Such as eyes, hearts, skin, bones, and livers are all starting to be made in labs