Witte history of health care time line

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    They practiced exorcism to get rid of the evil spirits.
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    1. Digitalis 2.Quinine
    2. Belladonna and Atropine
    3. Morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • Period: 2900 BCE to 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records- They were the first people to keep accurate health records. Who are the physicians? The priests. How did they heal? They used splinting fractures and bloodletting.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Development of acupuncture- They figured out they could use stone tools to heal people and now they still use it today.
  • 990 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    Illness cause nature v.s. Spiritual- They realized that illness may have a natural cause rather than spiritual. Dissection- Religion's did not allow dissections of the bodies. Hippocrates- He kept many notes on symptoms and figured out that illness and disease was not caused by supernatural forces .
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    Ancient Roman’s
    Sanitation systems- They brought clean water to their cities and made sewers to carry away waste. They also built public baths with a filtering system. Organize medical care- They kept a room in their house for the ill and sent medical equipment to the soldiers to treat them. Hospital development- When they started having rooms in their house for the ill that was the beginning of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    They stopped because they only practiced it in convents or monasteries.
  • 700

    How do they treats disease?

    They treated diseases by herbal mixes.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics caused millions of deaths during this period. A big one was the bubonic plague (the Black Death). This killed 60 million people. Now they have vaccines.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    1. This was the “rebirth” of learning.
    2. They built medical schools and universities
    3. They accepted dissection of bodies
    4. Printing of books allowed greater knowledge
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    He studied and recorded anatomy.
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    He discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    He discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    He was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart.
  • Antonie von leeuwenhoek

    He invented the microscope. He too the bacteria off of his teeth and put it under the microscope and realized that germs were now visible.
  • Apothecaries

    These were where you could trade in drugs and spices.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Benjamin franklin
    He found colds could be passed around.
  • Medical students learning

    Students learned by attending lectures and also observing patients. When someone died they were able to dissect the body.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley
    He discovered the element of oxygen. He also observed that plants refresh air that has lost its oxygen.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    He discovered a method of vaccine for small pox.
  • Rene laennec

    Rene laennec
    He invited the stethoscope. This increased the sound of heartbeats.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    He identified the cause of childbed fever.
  • Florence nightingale

    People were opposed to her liking to caring for the ill so she took 38 women to war.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    He discovered that micro organisms were everywhere. He also proved to everyone that micro organisms cause disease.
  • Dmitri ivanovski

    He discovered that some micro organisms cannot be seen without a microscope.
  • Joseph lister

    He learned about Pasteurs micro organisms and he found out that carbolic acid will kill germs on wounds.
  • Ernst von bergmann

    He knew about diseases so he made a germ free area for surgery and medical areas.
  • Robert Koch

    He discovered many disease causing organisms. He discovered he could identify pathogens and isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
  • Paul ehrlich

    He discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing micro organisms. His discoveries brought about the use of chemicals to fight disease.
  • Wilhelm roetgen

    discovered x rays in 1895. He took a picture of his wife’s hand. This allowed doctors to see inside the body.
  • Anesthesia

    Early physicians used herbs, hashish, and alcohol to help relieve pain of the surgery.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Found penicillin killed life threatening bacteria. This is the most important discoveries of the 20th century.
  • Sigmund Freud

    He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
  • Gerhard domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds. These compounds were the first medications effective in killing bacteria.
  • Jonas Salk

    discovered that polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • Albert Sabin

    used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective. This vaccine is used today to immunize babies.
  • Francis crick and Jayne’s Watson

    discovered the model structure of DNA. Their model showed how it can duplicate.
  • Christian Barnard

    Performed the first successful heart transplant in 1968.
  • Ben Carson

    continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispheretomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.
  • Transplants

    When you donate a part of your body for another person. Ex: kidney
  • Longevity

    People have realized that people have been living longer and longer due to the advances in technology in the medical world.
  • Radiation therapy

    Radiation has been introduced for a partial helping agent for cancer.
  • Electronics

    The electronics advanced by introducing iPhones, iPads, and etc.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Child care

    Medically being able to care more in depth for fetuses when they are born.