Johnson History of Healthcare Timeline

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

    Medicines used today- digitalis, quinine, belladonna, atropine, morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

    Ancient Roman’s, Greeks, and Egyptians started to develop acupuncture, dissections, sanitation systems, and hospital development
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    18th century doctors

    18th century doctors
  • 2

    Old medical tools

    Old medical tools
  • 3

    People started to realize that the foods you eat effect your health

    People started to realize that the foods you eat effect your health
  • 4

    In the 21st century a lot of medical things are all online

    In the 21st century a lot of medical things are all online
  • 5

    Old medical drawings

    Old medical drawings
  • 6

    Middle age medicine

    Middle age medicine
  • 7

    20th century medical school

    20th century medical school
  • 8

    Old drawing of a dissection

    Old drawing of a dissection
  • 9

    Drawing of the human body

    Drawing of the human body
  • 10

    Old picture of one of the many medical building established

    Old picture of one of the many medical building established
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

    Bloodletting was common, along with herbal remedies, plasters for skin and regimens that included fasting, rest and dietary changes.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

    Epidemics were established. Epidemics is an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

    A lot of universities were made, books were written and there was more advancements in dissection.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Gabriele Fallopius
    Bartolommeo Eustachio
    William Harvey
    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
    Apothecaries
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    18th century

    Benjamin Franklin
    Medical students learning
    Joseph Priestley
    Edward Jenner
    Rene Laennec
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    19th and 20th centuries

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Florence Nightingale
    Louis Pasteur
    Dmitri Ivanovski
    Joseph Lister
    Ernst von Bergmann
    Robert Koch
    Paul Ehrlich
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    21st century

    Telehealth and Mobile Health
    Electronic Health Records
    Wearable Technology for Healthcare
    Medication Management Devices
    3D Printing in Healthcare