Wagner History of Healthcare

By 28abwagner
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Prayer, blood letting, amputation
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis for heart, quinine for digestion , belladonna and atropine for digestion, morphine for pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    • First people keep accurate health records
    • the priests acted as physicians
    • they used medicines to heal and called upon gods to heal them
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    They were the first to use acupuncture that is still in use today
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    • first to determine illness not just coming from spirits
    • stopped believing in spiritual illness
    • religion did not allow bodies to be dissected
    • Hippocrates the father of medicine based knowledge on anatomy he found disease not caused by supernatural force. Wrote the standard of ethics
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    • learned from the Greeks to create sanitation system. They use clean water and made sewer systems
    • the first to organize medical care sent medical care with their armies
    • beginning of hospitals was where physicians kept a room in their house for the sick. Eventually public buildings for sick were established.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped study of medicine

    • the Roman Empire was conquered which produced a stop in the study of medicine
  • 700

    How they treat disease

    Most of the treatment was through prayer. Medicine was herbal mixtures.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics was the leading cause of millions of deaths. Some of these included bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, Syphilis, and tuberculosis.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    • The learning began again, universities and medical schools were built.
    • people began dissecting the body
    • publishing books and the printing press made learning knowledge easier.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci recorded and studied the human body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered Eustachian tube (tube fro ear to throat)

  • William Harvey

    First to explain circulation of blood and pumping of the heart

  • Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope and showed that life is smaller than what we can see. He also found bacteria that causes tooth decay.

  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacies started and in England they began trading drugs and spices.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals and the fact that colds could be spread from person to person

  • Medical students learning

    Students attend lectures in classroom and laboratory but also observe patients. After patients died they were able to dissect the body.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered element of oxygen also found plants respiration

  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered vaccination for smallpox

  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope allowed doctors to see if disease was there
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    • durning Crimean war took care of soldiers dying from cholera
    • devoted her life to get better sanitation and management of hospitals

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    • identified cause of childbed fever
    • found handwashing and cleanliness was SUPER important

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered microorganisms are everywhere and caused disease also pasteurization kills bacteria in milk.

  • Dmitri ivanovski

    Discovered filtered sap from diseased plants could transfer the infection to healthy plants.