Wentland History of Healthcare

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    They used herbs and plants for medicine to treat sickness
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis is used in pill form or injection to help heart disease or slow down the heart
    Quinine is from the bark of a tree and is used to treat fevers and prevents malaria
    Belladonna and atropine are made from a poisonous plant and it helps muscle spasms
    Morphine comes for opium poppy is used to help severe pain but is addictive These medicines were used in BC but are also used now.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    The Egyptians were the first people to keep health records. The priests were also physicians in their time. They healed people who had wounds using leaches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    The Acient Chinese people devolved acupuncture, as early as the Stone Age, by using stone tools. Acupuncture is still used today but advanced.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    The Greeks were the first to research and prove that illness was not always spiritual but also natural. The research they did got rid of superstition. Dissection was not allowed because of religion during this time. Hippocrates kept notes on symptoms and proved that disease was not caused by supernatural forces. He wrote the standard called the Oath of Hippocrates and that is still used today.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    The Romans used public baths with filters and used them as the first form of public sanitation. They sent physicians and medical equipment with armies for wounded soldiers. Physicians were paid by the government. Roman physicians kept rooms in their house for the ill; this was the beginning of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine because….

    Medicine stopped because of the church’s beliefs. They believed the best treatment was prayer rather than medicine. They also believed that death was in God’s hands.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    They treated sickness with herbal mixtures and prayer.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    A disease affecting many people at one time that cause death EX: bubonic plague
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    The medical schools began researching again. They also started to allow dissection again. Books began to be used for research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Recorded the anatomy of body for the first time
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Gabriele Fallopius
    Discovered fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Estachio

    Bartolommeo Estachio
    He discovered the tube leading from the throat to the ear.

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    Used his knowledge to understand physiology and describe the circulation of blood plus the pumping of the heart

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    Invented the mircoscope

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    They were the early pharmacies in this time.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Discovered bifocals and also the way colds can be passed from person to person

  • Medical students learning..

    Medical students learning..
    Students began to learn from not only in class lectures but real life dissection of dead bodies

  • Joseph Priestly

    Joseph Priestly
    He discovered the element of oxygen

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered a vaccine for smallpox

  • René Laënnec

    René Laënnec
    Invented the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Volunteered in hospitals and was the founder of modern healthcare

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Identified the cause of childbed fever

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere
    “Father of Microbiology”

  • Dimitri Ivanovski

    Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms you cant see with a microscope

  • Joseph Lister

    First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery

  • Ernst von Bergamann

    Developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    He introduced the idea of cleanliness and sanitation to prevent disease and the spreading of disease

  • Paul Ehrlich

    Discover the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms, on his 606th experiment, he discovered a treatment that worked

  • William Roentgen

    William Roentgen
    Discovered x-rays, took the first x-ray

  • Anesthesia

    Loss of feeling or sensation

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria

  • Sigmund Freud

    Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind, determined that the mind and body work together

  • 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 that is still used today to immunize baby’s against the disease

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered DNA and made a model

  • Christian Barnard

    Preformed the first successful heart transplant

  • Ben Carson

    Separated Siamese twins
  • Period: to

    21st Century to Present

  • 5 advancements

    1. Possibility of eliminating disabling disease through genetic research
    2. The ability to reattach severed body parts
    3. The ability to transplant organs from donor to recipient
    4. The advancement of caring for an unborn fetus
    5. The ability to use noninvasive techniques for diagnosis