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Health and Medicine over time - Coggle Diagram
Health and Medicine over time
Before 1750
Greeks
Careful observation of the sick
Greeks though that illness was caused by having an imbalance of the four humors in your body.
Four humors: phelgm, blood, black bile and yellow bile
Greek doctors were trained to observe patients´ symptoms and then diagnose
Treatments to restore the ´balance´
Vomiting
Purging
Bleeding
Hippocrates
He set down the professinal standards for doctors in his oath
He left behind a collection of medical books and treatises
Hippocrates wanted people to look for natural causes of illness
Romans
Hippocrate´s ideas continued
The most famous Roman doctor was Galen
He wrote 60 books
He was interested in anatomy
He carried out dissections to know more about the human body
Public health
Sewers
Aqueducts
That brougth in clean water and public bath-houses
Prehistory
Ilnesses were treated by ´medicine men´
It was believed that ilenesses have
Supernatural causes, such as vengeful gods or evil spirits
Natural causes as in the case of an injury from hunting or an insect bite
Treatments varid little from prehistoric times, though there was an enphasis on hygiene to prevent disease
Middle ages
The Christian Church´s power had grown
Women were not permited to go to university
Islamic scholars took on the work of Galen
Renaissance
Medical breakthroughts
Andreas Vesalious
He show that Galen had been wrong about elements of human anatomy
His work led to a much better undersatnding of human anatomy
Human dissection
Ambroise Pare
20 years with the army treating battle wounds
Surgery
He stopped using the boiling oil
He started using bandages
William Harvey
Circulation of blood in the human anatomy
The Enlightenment
By the 1700s
observations and experiments to gain knowledge.
Scientific revolution
The Catholic Church no longer controlled education.
Scientifics were provingold ideas were wrong
From the 1600s scientifics start using the microscope
Old explanations for diseases didn’t match natural observations.
20th century
WWI
Blood loss
Different blood groups were identified
French doctors developed the ´triage´ system
Blood could be separated ( the liquid part from the corpuscles)
Infections
Doctors found that cutting away infected tissue and soaking the wound in saline
Surgery
Surgeons used skin grafts
WWII
Combating diseases
Mosquitoes
Malaria
Penicillin
Penicillin was developed
Treat injuries
A lot of penicillin was produces
Surgical techiques
Development on the treatment of severe burns
Reconstructive plastic surgery
Sophisticated blood transfusion system
19th century
Towns grew, so health problems grew with them
Overcrowding
Poor housing
Dirty water
Poor sanitation
There were key positive factors for medical progress
Technology made welfare more deadly and this led to
The development of new techiques and practices