Breanna Becks History of Healthcare

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    Evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Treatments for sick?
    Herbs and plants
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today?

    Medicine used today?
    digitalis: helps the heart
    Quinine: nausea
    Belladonna and atropine: nausea
    Morphine: pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Heath Records: First to keep accurate health records.
    Who Are Physicians: priests acted as physicians
    How Did They Heal: called upon gds and would use leeches to restore skin.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    Used acupuncture wit stone tools still practiced today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual : Physicians had a noble and sacred mission , housed in sacred temples, first to study the causes and determine that illness may have natural rather than spiritual causes.
    Dissection: Religious custom did not allow them to dissect bodies.

    Hippocrates: Father of medicine (Hippocrates) took his knowledge of Anotomy observed the external body. Kept careful notes of signs and symptoms of many illness. Wrote an oath ( the oath of Hippocrates) still taken today.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    Sanitation Systems: They sent medical equipment and physicians, paid by Roman government, wore death mask believed it protected the from infection and bad odors.
    Organize medical care: First to organize medical care.
    Hospital development: Roman physicians kept a room in their houses of the ill.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Dark age

    Dark age
    Stopped the study of medicine, why: when Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns medical study stoped because church believed life and death was in gods hands.
  • 700

    Dark age

    How do they treat disease: The most used and primary treatment was prayer, medicine was herbal mixtures and care was custodial ( marked as watching and protecting rather than seeking cure).
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Middle age

    Epidemics: Is a disease affecting many at the same time, million of deaths during this period. The Bubonic Plague caused 60 million alone. Others including Small pox, diphtheria,ect…
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    Rebirth: New scientific progress began
    Universities: The building of universities and medical school for research
    Dissection: They now accepted dissection
    Books: The printing process and development of books allowed greater access to knowledge from research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat Eustachian tube.
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    invented the microscope so we can see better than the human eye scraped his teeth and found Bactria that causes tooth decay.
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries
    Apothecaries were early pharmacies started in this time they engaged in trade with drugs and spices from the east.
  • William Harvey

    was able to disrobe circulation of blood and pumping of heart. With physiology knowledge.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    he found colds that can be passed from person to person
  • Medical students learning

    students attend lectures and when someone died they could do anatomy on the body and observe and sometimes dissected the body.
  • Joseph Priestley

    discovered the element oxygen also discovered that plants refresh air that has lots its oxygen.
  • Edward Jenner

    discovered the vaccination for small pox. Small pox killed many so he saved millions. This discovery led to immunization and preventive medicine in public health.
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    invented the stethoscope the first one was made of wood, increased ability to hear heart and lungs to tell if diseases were present.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    identified the cause of the childbed fever man women died from this after giving birth. It was noted that patients of midwifes who were women who delivered baby’s but not physicians had fewer deaths. The main difference was physicians did not wash/clean their hands after touching dead bodies and such. Today washing hands is still a way we prevent it from spreading.
  • Florence Nightingale

    She came from a cultured middle class family who opposed her interest in caring for the ill, During war she took a group of 38 women to care for soldiers dying from cholera. She was big for better sanitation in hospitals and designed a hospital ward that improved the environment and care of the patients.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Well known as “ father of microbiology”. Proved that microorganisms cause disease. Created Pasteurization in milk and the rabies vaccine in 1885.
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    discovered diseases we can not see with out microscope. Aka viruses: rabies, influenza, mumps, ect..
  • Joseph Lister

    Used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs that cause infections first doctor to use antispectic during surgery.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    developed asepsis. Invented/ learned how to keep an area germ free before and during surgery.
  • Robert Koch

    developed he culture plate method to identify pathogens and also isolated the bacteria that causes tuberculosis. Introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation to prevent the spread of disease.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    discovered the affect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. Treatment was effective against some microorganisms but not affective i killing bacteria. He completed 606 experiments on 606th it worked he was trying to find a chemical that treats syphilis.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    discovered x-rays in 1895 took first picture using wife’s hand. Helps doctors discover what’s wrong with patients.
  • Anesthesia

    Was invented to save lives before many died from shock and pain and were even choked till they were unconscious so they would be asleep. Nitrous oxide puts patients into deep sleep for surgery so we can experience painless surgery.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    found penicillin which killed life-threatening bacteria. One of the most important discoveries many died from blood poisoning and other before penicillin was invented.
  • Sigmund Freud

    discovered the conscious and in conscious parts of the mind, he found the body and brain work together this lead t the understanding of psychosomatic illness.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    discovered sulfonamide compounds. The first effective medication in killing bacteria.
  • Jonas Salk

    discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. This paralyzed thousands of adults and children each year. Targeted most athletic and active people.
  • Albert Sabin

    used live polio virus, vaccine which is more effective this is still used today to immunize babies against poliomyelitis.
  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    discovered the molar structure of dna based on its known double helix. They won the noble peace prize this set the stage for the rapid advances in molecular biology.
  • Christian Barnard

    preformed the first successful heart transplant in 1968
  • Ben Carson

    pioneer in spreading Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain to stop seizures
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Robotic surgery

    Robotic surgery
    robots can help doctors improve accuracy and helps with not needing as many breaks and never gets tired
  • Stem cell therapy

    cells can be programmed to be any cell and any type in the body, which could lead to cures for diseases and other things.
  • Artificial organs

    Artificial organs
    Helps people the transplant list and helps the body. saves many lives.
  • Gene editing

    Gene editing
    Gene editing
    a gene editing technique that allows scientists to copy living creatures DNA and paste it
  • Immunotherapy

    A new way for treating cancer that has success rates.