Maroszek History of Healthcare Timeline

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused by?

    -Evil Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for the sick

    Treatment for the sick
    -Perform ceremonies to remove evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    -Digitalis treats heart conditions
    -Quinine controls fevers, relieves muscles spasms, and prevents malaria
    -Belladonna and atropine relieve muscles spasms
    -Morphine is to treat severe pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    -The Egyptians were the first to use health records. Priests acted as physicians
    -The used medicines, splinted fractures and used leeches for bloodletting.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    -Treated illnesses and diseases with stone tools, their methods developed and are used today
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    -First to discover that the cause of disease may be natural and not spiritual
    -Religious custom didn’t allow body’s to be dissected.
    -Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called to Oath of Hippocrates
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    -Brought clean water through aqueducts
    -First to organize medical care
    -Romans physicians kept a room in their house for the ill
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of Medicine, why?

    -Roman empire was conquered by the Huns
  • 700

    How do they treat diseases?

    -Primary treatment was prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics
    -Many epidemics caused millions of deaths
    -Scientists discovered vaccines to control diseases
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    -Building of university’s and medical schools for research
    -Acceptance of dissecting
    -Development of printing press and publishing books allowed greater access to knowledge from research
  • 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 of female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    -Discovered the Eustachian tube
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    -Understood physiology
    -Describe circulation of blood and pumping of the heart
  • Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek
    -Invented the microscope
    -Found bacteria that causes tooth decay
  • Apothecaries

    -Early pharmacist
    -Drug and spices trade
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    -Discovered Bifocals
    -Found that colds could be passed on from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    -Wider range of students studying medicine
    -New way to teach
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    -Discovered oxygen
    -Observed that plants refresh air
  • Edward Jenner

    -Discovered vaccine for Smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    -Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    -Identified the cause of childbed fever(puerperal fever)
  • Florence Nightingale

    -Wanted effective training for nurses
  • Louis Pasteur

    -Father of Microbiology
    -Microorganisms are everywhere and cause diseases
  • Dimitri Ivanovski

    -Discovery of viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    -First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    -Developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    -Discover many disease causing organisms
    -Introduced importance of cleanliness and sanitation to prevent disease
  • Paul Ehrlich

    -Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    -Discovered X-rays
  • Anesthesia

    -Have the ability to put people into a deep sleep during surgery
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    -Found penicillin that killed lie threatening bacteria
    -Penicillin is known of one the most important discoveries of the 20th century
  • Sigmund Freud

    -Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
  • Gerhard Domagk

    -Discovered sulfonamide compounds
  • Jonas Salk

    -Discovered that a dead pop lo virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Albert Sabin

    -Used live polo virus
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    -Discoveded molecular structure of DNA
  • Christian Barnard

    -Performed first successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    -Separates Siamese twins
    -Performs surgery’s on brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • 1st Advancement

    Telemedicine
  • 2nd Advancement

    -The Possibility of eliminating disease through genetic research
  • 3rd Advancement

    -Ability to transplant organs from donor to recipient
  • 4th Advancement

    -Ability to reattach severed body parts
  • 5th Advancement

    -Use of handheld computers aid in diagnosis, accurate record keeping, and research