Micoley History of healthcare

By 26brmicoley
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Exorcises
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Herbs, plants, digitalis, quinine, Belladonna, atropine, and morphine.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Accurate health records. They are superstitious. They used medicines and leeches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Treat illness and disease with stone tools.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Research help eliminate superstition and developed massage and herbal therapies.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    Disease caused by lack of sanitation. Spice-filled beak believed to protect from infection and bad odors.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    Believed life and death were in God’s hands.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    Primary treatments was prayer.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths during this period.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Many new developments during this period. Building of universities and medical schools, new ideas about disease, dissection, printing press and publishing of books.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat.

  • William Harvey

    Knowledge to understand physiology and described the circulation of blood and the pumping if the heart.

  • Antonie Avon Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope and found bacteria that causes tooth decay.

  • Apothecaries

    Engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the East.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals, and found that colds could be passed from person to person.

  • Medical students learning

    Students attended lectures in the classroom, laboratory and also observed patients at the bedside. Disect and observe.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen. Plants refresh air making it usable for respiration.

  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered a vaccination for smallpox which led to the discovery of immunization.

  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope, increased the ability to hear the heart and lungs.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Volunteered in hospitals and designed a ward.

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever. Not washing hands.

  • Louis Pasteur

    “Father of Microbiology”. Discovered microorganisms cause disease and that’s getting milk preventing the growth of bacteria.

  • Dmitri ivanovski

    Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that can’t be seen with a microscope.

  • Joesph Lister

    First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery which helped prevent infection in the incision.

  • Ernst Von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis. A method to keep an area germ-free before and during surgery.

  • Robert Koch

    Discovered disease-causing organisms. Introduced cleanliness and sanitation.

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. Completed 606 experiments.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays in 1895.

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    Kept people in deep sleep to not feel any pain.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered te conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds.

  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.

  • Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine which is used today to immunize babies.

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA.

  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant.

  • Ben Carson

    Pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies and surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.

  • Telesurgery

    Telesurgery
    A doctor performing surgery on a patient that is not in the same location as the patient.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • The Adaptive Artificial Knee

    The Adaptive Artificial Knee
    Helps cycling, walk-to-run, and climbing stairs.

  • The Visual prosthetic (bionic eye)

    The Visual prosthetic (bionic eye)
    Improves light sensitivity and creates a sense of vision for people who have vision loss.

  • Hep C treatment

    Hep C treatment
    Antiviral medications.

  • Human Genome

    Human Genome
    A complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans.