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History of Health Care Bruss

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Primitive Time

  • 3900 BCE

    Morphine

    It a plant that can treat the pain you have.
  • Trepanation
    3900 BCE

    Trepanation

    It was a way they thought that could get rid of your headaches.
  • Supernatural spirits and demons caused diseases
    3800 BCE

    Supernatural spirits and demons caused diseases

    Many people believed that diseases were caused by supernatural spirits and demons
  • Average life span was 20 years
    3700 BCE

    Average life span was 20 years

    The average life span back then was 20 years old.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

  • Religions rites and ceremonies
    2900 BCE

    Religions rites and ceremonies

    Back then this is how they thought they could heal diseases. They also thought it could also release the evil spirits to restore the persons health.
  • Imhotep
    2800 BCE

    Imhotep

    Imhotep was mostly likely one of the first physicians ever. Physicians were also priests who’s studied medicine and surgery at a temple
  • Average life span was 20 to 30 years
    2700 BCE

    Average life span was 20 to 30 years

    The average life span during the ancient Egyptian times was 20-30 years old.
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 220

    Ancient Chinese

  • Beliefs and Result
    1600 BCE

    Beliefs and Result

    The religious prohibitions against dissection and the result turned into less knowledge on the body structure
  • Important of the whole body
    1500 BCE

    Important of the whole body

    Back then they used the pulse to monitor the body condition just like they still do today. They also believed if you treated the whole body would be cured by the spirit.
  • Average life span was 20-30 years old
    1400 BCE

    Average life span was 20-30 years old

    The average life span was 20-30 years old.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

  • Period: 753 BCE to 410

    Ancient Romans

  • Hippocrates
    460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    They are called the Father if Medicine. They devolved and organized a method to help learn about the human body. They also recorded any symptoms or causes to theses diseases. They also created an oath called the oath of Hippocrates.
  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle was the person that started dissecting animals. He is also called the founder of comparative anatomy. He believed that Illinois were the result of natural causes.
  • Average life span was 25-35 years old
    370 BCE

    Average life span was 25-35 years old

    The average life span during this was 25-35 years old.
  • Sanitation systems
    200 BCE

    Sanitation systems

    Sanitation systems first began when they created aqueducts to carry clean water into the city. Then they built sewers to carry waste away front eh clean water that went into the city. Next they used filtering systems in public showers and baths to prevent people from getting diseases. Finally they, drained waste to reduce the cases of malaria.
  • Hospitals
    100 BCE

    Hospitals

    Earlier hospitals that were built when physicians were still going door to door to care for people in their home. Later during this time frame hospitals became to be used for religious and charitable Institution houses.
  • Average life span was 25-35 years old
    300

    Average life span was 25-35 years old

    The average life span was from 25-35 years old during this time frame.
  • 400

    Prohibited study of medicine

    They wanted to focus on saving to soul.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    How do they treat disease?

    Pray and divine intervention were used to treat these diseases.
  • Average life span was 20-30 years old
    600

    Average life span was 20-30 years old

    The average life span was from 20-30 years old during this time.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • Medical Universities
    850

    Medical Universities

    Medical universities became a thing in the 9th century. At first medical universities were just to renew the medical practices of the ancient Greeks and romans.
  • 900

    Pandemic

    This pandemic was about the bubonic plague. It killed about 3/4 of the population of Europe and Asia.
  • Rhazes
    910

    Rhazes

    It was a Arab physician, that became known as the Arab Hippocrate.
  • Average life span was 20-35 years old
    1000

    Average life span was 20-35 years old

    The average life span was 20-35 years old during this time.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Rebirth
    1401

    Rebirth

    They called it the rebirth because it was the new ways of the science and medicines
  • Dissection
    1425

    Dissection

    It was a away to figure out a better understanding of the anatomy and physiology.
  • Artists
    1450

    Artists

    Some of the artists during the this time were Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. They drew the human body more realistically.
  • Average life was 30 to 40 years old
    1475

    Average life was 30 to 40 years old

    The average life span during this time period of was 30-40 years old.
  • 1501

    Cause of Disease

    Many doctor's really didn’t know what what was causes this fever that was going around.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th Century

  • Father of Modern surgery
    1510

    Father of Modern surgery

    Ambroise Pare was know as the Father of Modern surgery. He established the use if ligatures to bind arteries. He also found a way to limit the use of boiling water to cauterize wounds. He also produced a better treatment to treat fractured bones.
  • Gabriel Fallopius
    1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    She founded the Fallopian tubes in females. She found a way to describe the tympanic membrane in the ear.
  • Average life span was 35-45 years old

    Average life span was 35-45 years old

    The average life span during this time is 35-45 years old.
  • Period: to

    17th Century

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    William Harvey described the circulation of blood to and from the heart. He did this in 1628.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    He invented the microscope. He invented in the year 1666.
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    They sold the an prescribed medicine to pharmacies.
  • Average life span is 35-45 years old

    Average life span is 35-45 years old

    The average life span during this time frame is 35-45 years old.
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Gabriel Fahrenheit

    He created the first ever mercury thermometer. He created it in 1714
  • James Lind

    James Lind

    He created lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent the disease called scurvy. He invented it in 1795.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    He developed a vaccine for small pox. He developed it in 1796
  • Average life span 40-50 years old

    Average life span 40-50 years old

    The average life span in this time span is between 40-50 years old old.
  • Period: to

    19th Century

  • Blood Transfusion

    Blood Transfusion

    The first successful blood transfusion took place in 1818. James Blundel performed this operation.
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    She became the first ever female physician in the US.
  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale

    She was the founder of modern nursing.
  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross

    The american Red Cross was founded in 1881.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    He discovered roentgengrams in 1895.
  • Average life span was 40-60 years old.

    Average life span was 40-60 years old.

    The average life span during this time period was 40-60 years old.
  • Period: to

    20th Century

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    He discovered penicillin. He discovered it in 1928 during the Great Depression.
  • Open heart surgery

    Open heart surgery

    The first open heart surgery ever took place with a heart-lung machine that was developed in 1953.
  • Transplants

    Transplants

    The first transplant ever was a transferred kidney. Jospeh Murray performed the first transplant. The second transplant was a transferred liver. Thomas Starzl performed this transplant. The third transplant was a transferred lung. James Hardie performed this transplant. Finally, the fourth transplant was the first successful heart transplant. Christian Barnard performed this transplant.
  • CAT Scan

    CAT Scan

    The CAT scan stands for computerized axial. The CAT scan was developed in 1975.
  • Test tube baby

    Test tube baby

    Luise Brown was the first test to baby to ever be born. She was born in England in 1978.
  • Average life span 60-70 years old

    Average life span 60-70 years old

    The average life span during this time was 60-70 years old.