Sikorski history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused?

    Evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Prayer, exorcisms
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    Morphine- pain
    Quinine- digestion
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records- first to keep accurate records
    Physicians- priests
    How did they heal- medicines, and bloodletting with leeches
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture- The Chinese were the first to acupuncture therapy to treat illness/disease- still used today
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Nature vs. spiritual illness- the first to study diseases leading to discover what caused illness
    Dissection- were not allowed to dissect bodies from religious customs
    Hippocrates- the father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    Sanitation systems- learned from Greeks that sanitation was causing diseases and developed a system for clean water
    Organize medical care- the first to organize medical care and would send equipment and physicians for wounded soldiers in the army
    Hospital development- physicians keep a room in there house for the ill
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Why they stoped the study

    Why did they stop the study of medicine?
    - They stopped because they were being conquered by the Huns and they believed that life and death was in gods hands
  • 700

    Treat disease

    How did they treat disease?
    - prayer, and herbal mixtures
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics- the black death, smallpox, syphilis, and turberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities, dissection, and books
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo de Vinci

    -studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopious

    • he found the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    -discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat
  • William Harvey

    • he was able to describe the circulation of the blood and pumping of the heart
  • Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

    • he invited the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    -engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the East
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    • he discovered bifocals and that disease can be passed from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    • discovered a new way of teaching that allowed students to attend lectures, observe at patient’s bedside, and learned diseases process from a cadaver when a patient died.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    -discovered the element of oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    -discovered a way to vaccinate for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    -invented the first stethoscope made of wood
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignacio Semmelweis

    Ignacio Semmelweis
    -founded the cause of child birth fever
    - (caused by not washing hands)
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    -was well educated and raised the standards of nursing and made it a more respectable profession
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    • was known as the (Father of microbiology) because he identified that tiny microorganisms were all over
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Dmitri Ivanovski
    -founded that the diseases that are caused by microorganisms cannot be seen under a microscope
  • Joseph Lister

    • was the first doctor to use an antiseptic while doing surgery (prevent infection)
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    -invented asepsis that keep a germ-free area before and during surgery
  • Robert Koch

    -founded diseases that cause organisms
    -made a culture plate to discover pathogens and isolated the bacterium that causes turberculosis
  • Paul Ehrlich

    -discovered the effects of medication on diseases
    -found a treatment to treat syphilis
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    -founded the x-ray
    -was the first to use it on his wife
  • Anesthesia

    -was not developed until the nineteenth and twentyth centuries
    -they discovered nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform which puts people in a deep sleep
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    -discovered that penicillin killed a deadly bacteria
  • Sigmund Freud

    -founded the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain
    -studies based of psychology and psychiatry
  • Gerhard Domgk

    -founded sulfonamide compounds
    -one of the first medicines that actually killed bacteria and diseases
  • Janas Salk

    -founded that dead polio virus would lead to immunity to poliomyelitis
  • Wearable healthcare technology

    Wearable healthcare technology
    -monitor patient’s while their at home
    -helps with diagnosis
    -long term plans
    -has been improving over the years
    (21st century)
  • Albert Sabin

    -used a more effective vaccine for polio virus which is used today
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    -founded molecular structure of DNA
    -made a model that identifies how DNA replicates
  • Christian Barnard

    -he performed the first ever successful heart transplant
  • Ben Carson

    -continued to study in the separation on Siamese twins and operated on the brain to stop seizures
  • Health records on electronics

    -hospitals operate better
    -physician work and focus on the patient better
    -manages patient information better
  • Virtual reality healthcare

    Virtual reality healthcare
    -medical training on VR
    -allows surgeons to examine/ do procedure on patient in VR
  • 3D printing

    3D printing
    -The first ever 3D printed prosthetic leg was made in 2008
    -In 2009, they bio printed blood vessels
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Mental well-being

    -more advanced and more options to get help
    -more places to get help such as a psych units and therapist offices