VandenLangenberg History of Healthcare

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused By?

    Evil Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitals comes from the foxglove plant. Quinine comes from the bark of the cinchona tree. Belladonna and atropine are made from the poisonous nightshade plant. Morphine is made from the opium poppy
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Kept accurate health records.
    The priests acted as physicians.
    Used medicines to heal diseases, learned the art of splinting fractures, and treated disorders by bloodletting with the use of leeches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    First to use acupuncture therapies. These early medical pioneers learned to treat a variety of illnesses and diseases with stone tools.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

  • 100

    Ancient Romans

  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopis

  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

  • William Harvey

  • Antonie von Leeuwenboek

  • Apothecaries

  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Medical students learning

  • Joseph Priestly

  • Edward Jenner

  • Rene Laennec

  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

  • Florence Nightingale

  • Louis Pastuer

  • Dimitri Ivanovski 1892

  • Joseph Lister

  • Ernst von Bergmann

  • Robert Koch

  • Paul Ehrich

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

  • Anesthesia

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

  • Sigmund Freud

  • Jonas Salk

  • Albert Sabin

  • Francis Cricks and John Watson

  • Christian Barnard

  • Ben Carson

  • Period: to

    21 Century