Bohm History of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginning

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases cause by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Doctors performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    Digitalis; pill form and is a treatment for heart conditions. Quinine; controls fevers, relieve muscle spasms, and prevents malaria. Belladonna and atropine; relieve muscle spasms, especially (GI) pain. Morphine; treats severe pain, it is an addiction medicine.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health Records; they were superstitious and called upon gods to heal them. Who are physicians; the priests. How did they heal; they used medicine, bloodclotting with leaches, drain blood.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese 1900

    Development of acupuncture; treat illness and disease with stone tools, and their practice advance to Chinese acupuncture still used today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient greeks

    Illness cause nature vs spiritual; they discovered that it may have natural, rather than spiritual causes. Dissection; religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates; they did the research and wrote the oath of Hippocrates by recording things.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    sanitations systems; they got clean water, built sewers, and public baths. organize medical care; they were the first to organize the medical and patients. hospital development; the woman physicians specific room for the patients.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medics, why?

    They believed life and dealth was all in gods hand
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    Herbal mixtures and care was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths, other diseases such as smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    universities and medical schools; for research. Dissection of the body; study. books; allowing greater access to knowledge from research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat
  • William Harvey

    Used knowledge to understand physiology and was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the east.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Discovered bifocals and he found that colds could be pasted from person to person
  • Medical students learning

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen, he also observed that plants refresh air that has lost it oxygen, making it usable for respiration
  • Edward jenner

    Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene laennec

    Invented the stethoscope, increased the ability to get the heart and lungs
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence nightingale

    Attracted well-educated, dedicated woman to the nightingale school of nursing
  • Ignacio semmelwies

    Identified the cause of childbed fever
  • Louis pasteur

    Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere, and found that they cause disease
  • Dmitri ivanovski

  • Joseph lister

  • Ernst von bergmann

  • Robert koch

  • Paul ehrlich

  • Wilhelm roentgen

  • Anesthesia

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

  • Sigmund frued

  • Gerhard domagk

  • Jonas salk

  • Albert sabin

  • Francis crick and James Watson

  • Christian barnard

  • Ben carson