Vieaux History Of Heath Care

By Estellavieaux
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 2999 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Heath records: They called upon god to heal them. They also soon learned how to identify some of the diseases.
    Who were the physicians: The priests acted as physicians
    How did they heal? They used medicine to heal disease, they did splitting fractures, and treated distorters by bloodletting with leech's. .
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture: Medical pioneers learned to treat a lot of illnesses and diseases
  • 1000 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation systems: They kept a room in there house for the ill so they wouldn’t get effected.
    Organize medical care:They sent medical equipment and physicians with their armies to care for the injured and sick
    Hospital development: They kept a room in there house for the ill to protect them from illness and bad odors. There for the start of hospitals
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs.: First to discover that illness and disease may be natural. Because of Anatomy, observation, symptoms and ethics
    Spiritual: they didn’t believe this caused illness and disease
    Dissection: Did not allow bodies to be dissected
    Hippocrates: The father of medicine
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Study of medicine stopped , why?

    Because the Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    They believed that life and death was in gods hands.
  • Period: 800 to

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Rebirth?

    Universities: They made them for research
    Dissection: The acceptance of dissecation of the body for study
    Books: the development of printing and publishing books allowing more access to knowledge from research
  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths, like the black plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis and tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    The Renaissance

  • Period: 1501 to

    16 and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the falopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat (Eustachian)

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    He used his knowledge to understand physiology and was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart

  • Antonio Vom Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope and established that there is life smaller than the human eye can see. He found out that scraping your teeth causes tooth decay

  • Apothecaries

    Trade in drugs and spices from the east
  • Period: to

    1701-1800

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovers bifocals and that colds can be passed from one person to another

  • Medical students learning

    Students were very hands on and would observe patients by there bedside, when they died they would take them apart and research

  • Joseph Priestley

    He learned about the Pasteurs discovery that micrograms cause infections. He found out that carbolic acid on wounds kills germs that cause infection. He became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered the mthad of vaccination for smallpox. He saved the life’s of millions

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invented the stethoscope.
  • Period: to

    1801-2024

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childhood fever.

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    Founder of modern nursing

  • Louis Pasteur

    Known as father of Microbiology he discovered tiny organisms

  • Dimitri Lvanovski

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

  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Learned that Pasteurs discovery that microorganisms cause infection.

  • Ernst von Bergman

    Developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    Discovered many disease causing organisms

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Discovered X-Rays

  • Anesthesia

    Loss of feeling for sensation

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered that the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind

  • Pacemaker

    A pacemaker is a small, battery-powered device that prevents the heart from beating too slowly

  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds

  • Organ transplants

    taking an organ like a kidney from one donor and giving it to his/hers identical twin brother

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered that dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis

  • Telemedicine

    Telemedicine
    The remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology

  • Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio virus vaccine which is the most effective. The vaccine is still used today to immunize babies against this disease

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA together

  • Christian Barnard

    Preformed the very first successful heart transplant

  • 3-D printing

    3-D printing
    The creation of physical replicas of anatomical structures using 3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing) processes.

  • Ben Carson

    Was a pioneer in separating Siamese twins, preforming hemisphere and surgeries on the brain to stop seizures

  • Gene therapy

    the transplantation of normal genes into cells in place of missing or defective ones in order to correct genetic disorders.