Sharkey, history of health care

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    We believe we got sick because the evil spirts were attacking us
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for sick

    The tribal doctors would perform and release the evil spirits. They would also remove parts of the cranial, herbs and plants.
  • 3100 BCE

    Hows Medicine used today?

    Digitalis : Today it’s used in pills or injections, to treat heart conditions.
    Quinine: This is used from the cinchona tree, it helps fevers, muscle spasm, and gastrointestinal pain.
    Atropine: The medicine is used from the poisonous nightshade plant. It relives muscle spasms and gastrointestinal pain.
    Morphine: This is used to treat severe pain, its normally used when nothing else works.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient TImes

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records: they were one of the first people to keep health records and they started to be able to identify diseases.
    Who are physicians: they were priest who took on the role and learned how to set bone fractures, bloodletting.
    How did they heal: using all the tools they were able to start treating people.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese.

    Developments of acupuncture: they used this as early as the sone age, the medical pioneers used this to treat illnesses and diseases using stone tools.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause nature vs spiritual: they were the first to discover the cause of the disease either natural or spiritual.
    Dissection: religious reasons they were not allowed to do dissections.
    Hippocrates: the father of medicine, he kept note on observations and symptoms.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    sanitation system: they started to realized that some disease would be spread to lack of sanitation. So the towns built aqueducts to bring clean water in.
    Organize medical care: the Roman’s sent medical equipment and physicians to the battles.
    Hospital development: physicians were paid by the government. This is how medical building were started and wearing masks.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    for about 1,000 years medicine practice was stopped and only used in convents , monasteries. The church had believed that life and death was chose by god. The monks and priest had not interest in medicine so they relied on prayer.
  • 700

    How do they treat diseases?

    the treatment was prayer and herbal mixtures.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemic

    the Black Death caused around 60 million people to die, other diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    universities: buildings and medical schools for research. Looking into the disease.
    Dissections: it was being accepted for the body study.
    Books: this was used to have more access to research .
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He studied and recorded the human body.
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    He discovered the fallopian tube in the female body.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    He discovered the tube connecting the ear to the throat.
  • William Harvey

    He knew about physiology and was able to describe the pumping of the heart and blood circulation.
  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    He invented the microscope, he was then able to see that there were diseases smaller than the eye can see.
  • Apothecaries

    these were early pharmacy’s, in England this used trade to spread drugs and spices.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    He had many discoveries : bifolacls, the cold could be passed person to person.
  • Medical Students Learning

    they sat in lectures and did labs but also went and saw people in person. When a person would die they would dissect the human and be able to look deeper to see the causes.
  • Joseph Priestly

  • Edward Jenner

    He discovered methods of vaccinations to small pox.
  • Rene Laennec

    Discovered the stethoscope, the first one was made of wood and was used to increase the hearing ability the heart and lungs.
  • Period: to

    19th and 20t hcentries

  • Florence Nightingale

    she was wanting to care for the ill and caring for soldiers in the Crimean war. She then devoted her life to preparing reports for sanitation, construction, and management of hospitals.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    He found the cause to childbed fever. This was when physicians would not was there hands or change clothes after dissection and went to deliver a baby and would infect the women.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Known as the father of microbiology. He showed the microorganisms were caused disease. And that heating milk kills the bacteria.
  • Joseph Lister

    He went off of Pasteur discovery and learned tha you could put carbolic acid and kill the germs. To help keep areas clean during surgery.
  • Ernst von Bergmann

    Using Lister and Pasteur he developed asepsis, this was used for a germ free before and during surgery
  • Robert Koch

    He discovered the pathogen plate and was able to identify them and isolate the bacteria. He also introduced the sanitation to prevent the spread.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    discovered the effects on microorganisms. He was working to figure out the chemical to treat syphilis, on the 606th try the cure was found.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    The x-ray was discovered in 1895, this helped doctors see inside the body.
  • Anesthesia

    In the early times physicians used herbs and alcohol. Nitrous oxide and chloroform were discovered. This allowed patients to go to deep sleep for surgery.
  • Sir Alexander

    He found the penicillin kills life threatening disease . Before this people died from disease that could be curable today.
  • Sigmund Freud

    He discovered the unconscious and the conscious parts of the mind. Also that the mind and body work together.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compound, this killed deadly bacteria’s.
  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered a polio virus, this saved many adults and children.
  • Albert Sabin

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

    Discovered the molecular structure of DNA this set the stage for new advances and molecular biology.
  • Christian Barnard

    Did a Herat transplant in 1968
  • Ben Carson

    Is try to advance separating Siamese twins