History of Healthcare, Prentice

By 27caprentice
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    History

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Treatments
    Prayer, amputation Photo from wikimedia commons
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Digitalalis for heart
    Quinine digestion
    Belledona and atropine digestion
    Morphine pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    Health records- first group to keep records
    Who are physicians- priests
    How did they heal- medicines, used leeches for bloodletting Photo from PxHere
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Development of acupuncture- started using different tools to heal disease and sickness Photo from wikimedia commons
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Illness caused natural vs. spiritual- preformed healthcare in temples, started to figure out where diseases came from
    Dissections- weren’t allowed due to religion
    Hippocrates- made standard of oath that is still used today Photo from World History Encyclopedia
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation systems- used clean water, used sewers
    Organize med care- first to organize it and get things to people who needed it
    Hospital development- made houses for anyone with illnesses, developed into hospitals
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark ages

    Why did they stop studying medicines?(500ad)- because the Roman Empire was conquered
    How were diseases treated?(700ad)- mostly prayer, herb mixtures
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

    Epidemics- led to finding vaccines for the diseases
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities- schools for research
    Dissection- used for study
    Books- made books related to healthcare
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied body anatomy
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered female fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered humans have a tube connecting throat and ear

  • William Harvey

    Learned physiology, could tell how the heart works

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    -invented microscope
    -found out there was life in smaller forms

  • Apothecaries

    Started pharmacies, sold medicines
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Found that different illnesses were contagious

  • Medical students learning

    Students learned about illness and death, and how it works.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    Discovered oxygen, and how plants recycle it Photo from wikimedia commons

  • Edward Jenner

    Found vaccinations to prevent smallpox

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invented stethoscope to hear hear and lungs Photo from wikimedia commons
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmeweis

    Figured out what was causing childbed fever

  • Florence Nightingale

    Volunteered in hospitals and helped save people

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered microorganisms, found that they caused illnesses

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered viruses too small to see through a microscope

  • Joseph Lister

    First to use carbolic acid to kill germs that could lead to infection
    First to use and antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Made asepsis, made surgery areas germ free to prevent infections

  • Robert Koch

    Found multiple organisms that held diseases, knew that areas needed to be clean to prevent these organisms

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered treatments and saw how the diseases reacted to them. Saw that certain treatments only worked on some organisms.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Invented x-rays (1895) Photo from wikimedia

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    Discovered so that when someone was in surgery, they wouldn’t feel it. Photo from picpedia

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin kills killing bacteria, important discovery, saved lives

  • Sigmund Freud

    Studied the mind, found connection between body+mind, found mental issues could connect with physical

  • Gerard Domagk

    Discovered medicines for killing bacteria

  • Jonas Salk

    Found dead polio cured poliomyelitis, saving many

  • Albert Sabin

    Off of Salks discovery, he used the live virus.

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Francis Crick and James Watson
    Discovered DNA, and how it replicates Photo from wikimedia commons

  • Christian Barnard

    First to complete a successful transplant of heart

  • Ben Carson

    Ben Carson
    Did brain surgeries, separating Siamese twins Photo from wikimedia commons

  • 21st century

    From PubMed Central
    1. We are now able to lab-grow organs
    2. Have medicine cures for many different illnesses/diseases
    3. We have AI that is able to do many things, helping in the healthcare field
    4. Developed a covid-19 vaccine
    5. Devices used to track how the body functions with different issues
  • Period: to

    21st century