Lehmkuhl History of health care timeline

By emersonl
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Diseases caused by
    Evil spirits.
  • 3600 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Medicines used today
    Digitalis, Quinine, Belladonna, atropine, morphine
  • 3000 BCE

    Cancer was discovered

    Cancer was discovered
    It was found in Ancient Egyptian books in a copy called Edwin Smith Papyrus.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Health records, physicians are priests. They used medicine to heal disease. And using splints and leeches to heal bones and blood disorders.
  • 1550 BCE

    Abortion was created

    Abortion was created
    Egyptian Ebers Papyrus created abortion.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Greeks developed massage and herbal therapies. Hippocrates was the father of medicine.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    They sent medical equipment to armies to care for soldiers. Physicians kept a room in their house for patients which began hospitals. The Romans were the first to organize medical care.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

    The church believed life, and death was in gods hands. So they wouldn’t treat diseases.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

    Epidemics caused millions to die.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

    They built universities and medical schools. Dissection of the body was excepted for study. Books were being developed.
  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

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

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Gabriele Fallopius
    Discovered the fallopian tube.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

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

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
    Invented the microscope proving that life is smaller than just the eyes can see. And found the bacteria that causes tooth decay.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Discovered Colds could be passed from person to person.

  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning
    Medical science becoming more organized and advanced.

  • Joseph Priestly

    Joseph Priestly
    Discovered oxygen and plants making oxygen.

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered the vaccine for small pox.

  • René Laënnec

    René Laënnec
    Invented the stethoscope it was made of wood.

  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton
    Establish records to help search for missing men in the civil war.

  • The first human fossil was found

    The first human fossil was found
    William Buckland found the first human fossil not knowing what he came upon.

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Found the cause of child bed fever.

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    She took a bunch of women to care for wounded soldiers and was a nursing legend.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Father of microbiology said tiny organisms were every where and cause disease. Found out about milk preventing growth of bacteria and found rabies vaccine.

  • The first recorded quadruplets were born

    The first recorded quadruplets were born
    The first quadruplets were born.

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski
    Became first doctor to used antiseptic for surgery.

  • Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    They were medical pioneers using new developing acupuncture.

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Ernst von Bergmann
    Made asepsis. Developed a method to keep an area germ free.

  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Discovered disease causing organisms. And introduced cleanliness and sanitation to prevent disease.

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    Discovered the effect of medicine on microorganisms.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Discovered X-rays discovered allowed doctors to see inside the patient’s body

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    They started using anesthesia for better preventing pain on patients instead of alcohol and herbs.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Found penicillin that killed life-threatening bacteria. It’s one of the most important diseases of the 20th century.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind he found out that the body and mind work together.

  • Lillian Wald

    Lillian Wald
    Brought nursing into homes of poor and created visiting nurses.

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    Discovered sulfonamide compounds the first medication effective in killing bacteria.

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.

  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    Used a live polio virus as a vaccine and was more effective.

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson
    Who discovered the double helix there models showed how DNA replicates hereditary information. Won the Nobel prize.

  • Christian Bernard

    Christian Bernard
    Performed the first successful heart transplant.

  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson
    Is a pioneer separating Siamese twins, and performing hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain.

  • Prenatal nutrition; herpes vaccine candidate

    Prenatal nutrition; herpes vaccine candidate
    Mary-Elizabeth Patti and colleagues at Joplin show bed prenatal nutrition will damage the baby and mom.