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History of Health Ca
Mr. G’s History of Healthcare
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Primitive Times 6000 - 3000 BCE | Witch doctors were the doctors at the time. Trepanning was used to cut hole in skull to treat insanity, epilepsy and headaches. Used plants and herbs. Lifespan 20 years. |
| Egyptians 3000 - 300 BCE | Began keeping medical records. Believed the body was a system of channels for blood, urine, feces, sperm, and sweat. Used bloodletting and leeches to open channels. Lifespan 20-30 years |
| Chinese 1700 BCE - 220 AD | Prohibited dissection due to religious reasons. Used acupuncture and needles to treat the whole body. Lifespan 20-30 years |
| Greeks 1200 BCE - 200 BCE | First to stress good diet and cleanliness. Research into physical cause of disease. Lifespan 25-35 years |
| Romans 700 BCE - 410 AD | Public health and sanitation systems First to organize health care and early hospitals. Lifespan 25-35 years |
| Arabic Islamic 700 - 1500 AD | Universal Health Care, licensing for doctors and pharmacist |
| Dark ages 400 - 800 AD | Study of medicine prohibited, Monks and priest cared for the sick. Prayers and divine intervention used to treat illness. Emphasis on saving the soul. Lifespan 20-30 years |
| Middle ages 800 -1400 AD | Doctors began to keep careful notes and Plague kills 3/4 of population. Diseases such as smallpox, typhoid, malaria, and tuberculosis were prominent. Physicians began studying at medical universities. Lifespan 20-35 years |
| Renaissance 1350 -1650 | Rebirth of science and medicine. Development of the printing press. Lifespan 30-40 years |
| 16th and 17th Centuries | Cause of disease still not known. Apothecaries made, prescribed and sold medications. Anton van Leeuwenhoek invented microscope . William Harvey describes the circulation of blood. Lifespan 35-45 years |
| 18th Century | Edward Jenner developed vaccination for smallpox . Lifespan 40-50 years |
| 19th Century | Florence Nightingale founder of modern nursing Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross Louis Pasteur proved that microbes caused disease Bayer introduced aspirin in powder form Lifespan 40-60 years |
| 20th Century | Francis Crick and James Watson discover DNA. Sigmund Freud studies form the foundation for psychology. Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin. Lifespan 60-80 years |
| 21st Century | Human Genome mapped Nanotechnology Regenerative Medicine Genomic Medicine |
| Hippocrates 460-377 BCE | Greek, father of Western medicine |
| Claudius Galen 129-199 | Roman physician, body regulated by four humors, described symptoms of inflammation and studied infectious diseases and dissected animals |
| Anton Van Leevwenhoek | Invented the microscope |
| Wilhelm Roentgen | Invented the x-ray |
| René Laennec | Invented stethoscope |
| Gabriel Fallopus | Discovered fallopian tubes and tympanum membrane |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit | Created first mercury Thermometer |
| Edward Jenner | Invented smallpox vaccine |
| Florence Nightingale | Founder of modern nursing |
| Alexander Fleming | Discovered penicillin |
| Louis Pasteur | Germ theory Microbes cause disease. Discovered pasteurization and rabies vaccine. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1st women to receive medical degree |
| Benjamin Franklin | Invented bifocals in 18th century |
| Ambroise Pare | The father of Modern Surgery in 16th-17th century |
| Jonas Salk | Created Polio Vaccine |
| Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Artist who used dissection to draw the human body |
| Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
| Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens |
| Joseph Lister | Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery |
| Rhazes | An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for structure material. |
| Caduceus | Symbol of the healing arts, Snakes are wise, Wings represent mercy. Staff represents learning and work it takes to get into the health field. |
| Rod of Asclepius | No wings, Only one snake |
| Ingaz Semmelweis | Identified the causes of childbed fever: Lack of Hand washing! He was laughed at by other doctors. |
| Anesthesia | Early physicians used herb, hashish & alcohol to relieve the pain of surgery. Many died from shock and pain. Loss of feeling or sensation |
| Genomic medicine | personalized medical care that uses a patients unique combination of genes and chromosome to prevent illness and maintain health. |
| Regenerative medicine | A form, of medical care that creates living tissue to replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, injury or birth disorder. |
| Nanotechnology | A field of science that manipulates atoms and molecules to create devices that are thousands of times smaller than current technologies allow. |
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