Yaw history of healthcare

By 28loyaw
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused?

    Evil spirit
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Treatments
    Prayer
    Blood letting
    Amputation
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis for heart
    Quinin for digestion
    Morphine for pain.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    First health care recorded
    Physicians were priest
    Splinting fractures
    Drain blood
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancients Chinese

    First to us acupuncture
    Used stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Greeks saw illness was natural not spiritual.
    Hippocrates was the father of medicine
    Religion in Greek did not all for dissections
  • 100 BCE

    Ancients Roman’s

    Built public baths with filtering by using acueductos that carried clean water.
    Organized medical care by sending tools and equipment to army’s and physicians.
    Physicians kept an empty room in their house for their patinas which were the start of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped study of medicine why?

    The Huns concurred the Roman’s empire which caused the studie of medicine to stop.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    How do they treat disease
    The church believed in prayer as a treatment and some herbal medicine.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics was the reason of millions of deaths. The black plague caused over 60 million casualties.
    Smallpox
    Diphtheria
    Syphilis
    Tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    Rebirth?
    University’s for learning and Medical research were built.
    Dissection for the study of the body was accepted.
    The printing press was developing and more books were being published.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th century

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Da Vinci recorded the human body and studied it.
  • 1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    Gabrielle was the first person to discover the fallopian tube leading from female anatomy.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from ear to the throat

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    Was able to describe and understand the circulation of blood to the heart.

  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope which established there is life smaller the we can see.

  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    Were early pharmacies that dealer in drugs and spices.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals and colds cold could be passed around.

  • Medical student learning

    Students attended lectures and laboratory and work at patients bedside.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element of oxygen and that plants refresh air with oxygen when the air is without it.

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovered the vaccine to small pox

  • Rene laennec

    Created the first stethoscope which was made of wood.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th century

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever

  • Florence nightingale

    Made nursing a respectable career.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Father of microbiology
    Discovered microorganisms

  • Dimitri ivanovski

    Discovered diseases caused by microorganisms
    Chiken pox
    Herpes zoster
    Measles
    Influenza

  • Joseph lister

    Used carbolic acids to kill wounds
    Discovered microorganisms cause infections.

  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Developed asepsis

  • Robert Koch

    Came up with the culture plate method

  • Paul ehrlich

    Discovered affect of medicine on diseases

  • Wilhelm roentgen

    Discovered x-rays

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    Anesthesia was not used but doctors would give the patients alcohol, herd, and spices to help relive some pain.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Founded 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

  • Albert Sabin

    Used a live polio vaccine which he found was more effective

  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of dna

  • Christian Barnard

    Performed first successful heart transplant.

  • Ben Carson

    Is and continues to be a pioneer is Milanese twin separation surgery.

  • Cancer treatments

    A new cancer pill called imatinib used for the cancer type leukemia.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Genomes

    Genomes
    The human genome project has give medical researchers an important insight on genetics

  • Transplants

    The ability to take an organ from a donor dead or alive and give it to someone who needs it. With over 23,000 happening i 2007
    Ability to reattach body parts

  • Surgery advancements

    Da Vinci six robot helps patients come out of surgery with less pain and scaring and helps the doctors perform more intense surgery.

  • AT HOMRE CARE

    AT HOMRE CARE
    doctors us telemedicine which is appointments and other medical diagnoses over the phone or other form of electronic devices. Physicals and nurses also visit homes so patients are more comfortable