Skenandore History of Health Care

By Harlow36
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused By

    They believed diseases were caused by evil spirts.
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments For Sick

    Tribal doctors performed ceremonies.
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Given digitalis which is a plant but is given in pill form now.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    They were superstitious and called upon gods to heal them. The priest acted as physicians. They used medicines to heal diseases.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    First to use primitive acupuncture therapies. They learned to use stone tools to heal illness and disease.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    First to study cause of disease and determine if the illness is natural or spiritual. During the time religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. The father of medicine Hippocrates had knowledge of anatomy.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans created a sanitation system to bring in clean water for their cities. Created health records. Hippocrates is the father of medicine.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    Believed life and death were in gods hands.
  • 700

    How they treated disease

    They would used a live polio virus vaccine.
  • Period: 800 to 1400 BCE

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths during this period.
  • Period: 1350 to 1650 BCE

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    During this time there were the buildings of universities and medical schools for research. The dissection of body study. The development of printing and publishing books.
  • Period: 1501 to 1700 BCE

    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 body.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube from the ear to the throat.

  • William Harvey

    Was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping heart.

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope.

  • Apothecaries

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

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    He discovered bifocals and found that colds can be found that colds can be passed from person to person.

  • Medical Students Learning

    They would observe patients at bedside and observe the disease process.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element of oxygen.

  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for small pox.

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invented the stethoscope.
  • Period: to 2000 BCE

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever.

  • Florence Nightingale

    During the Crimean War her bad a group of 38 women took care of soldiers dying from cholera.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere.

  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen in a microscope.

  • Joseph Lister

    Learned about Pasteur discovery that micro-organisms cause infection.

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    He developed asepsis.

  • Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease- causing organisms.

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease- causing microorganisms.

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays in 1895.

  • Anesthesia

    Surgery was performed on patients without anesthesia.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life- threatening bacteria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds.

  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.

  • Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective.

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA, based on it’s know double helix.

  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant in 1968.

  • Ben Carson

    A pioneer in separating Siamese twins.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • 5 advancements

    Electronic Health Records, Wearable Technology for Healthcare, 3D Printing in Health Care, Virtual Reality Health Care, and Medication Management Devices.