History Of Health Care Flashcards
- keep health records
- physicians were priests
- treated with blood letting and leaches
- believed clogged body channels caused illness
- air, ears, blood, urine
Ancient Egyptians
What was used to treat insanity, epilepsy, etc
Treplanning
- dissections prohibited by religion
- believed in treating the whole person
- recorded medicines (herbs and teas)
- acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion
Ancient Chinese
- started to observe the human body and effects of disease
- believed illness is a result of natural causes
- stressed diet and cleanliness as ways to prevent disease
Ancient Greeks
Who was Hippocrates
Father of medicine
- organized medical care
- early hospitals for soldiers
- began public health and sanitation systems
- built sewers and filtering systems for public baths
- used the scientific method to prevent malaria
Ancient Romans
- study of medicine prohibited
- monks and priests provided care
- prayers used as treatment
Dark ages
- renewed interest in medical practises of the Greeks and Romans
- the plague
- major disease - smallpox
Middle Ages
- rebirth of science of medicine
- dissection of body
- medical books on circulation, respiratory and digestion system
Renaissance
Used dissection to draw human body more realistically
Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci
Who described the circulation of blood to and from the heart
William Harvey
- scientific societies established
- apothecaries (early pharmactists)
16-17 centuries
Who developed the first Mercury thermometer
Gabriel Fahrenheit
- lime juice used to prevent scurvy
- surgical procedure standardized
- vaccination for smallpox
18 century
Who developed a vaccination for small pox
Edward Jenner
- first successful blood transfusion
- ether used as an anesthetic
- proved microorganism caused disease
- vaccine for rabies
- tuberculosis bacteria
- x rays developed
- public nursing
19 century
Who proved microorganisms caused disease
Louis Pasteur
Who was the founder of modern nursing
Florence nightingale
- classified blood groups
- psychotherapy
- insulin
- penicillin
- kidney dialysis
- Polio vaccine
- first heart and lunch machine
20 century
- first heart transplant
- AIDS
- HIV
- first gene therapy
20 century
Who discovered insulin
Banting and best
Who classified blood groups
Carl Landsteiner