History of Health Care

discovered that microorganisms were everywhere and that they caused disease, he created pasteurization, he developed a vaccine for rabies

• Ernst von Bergmann

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Edward Jenner

the founder of modern nursing, she began professional education for nurses.

• Marie Curie

• Clara Barton

• Robert Koch

• Florence Nightingale

Dark Ages

• •Many lived in filth, with little or no personal hygiene

• •Medical universities were created in the 9th Century to train physicians how to use knowledge to treat illness

• •Medicines were mainly herbal mixtures

• •Prayer and divine intervention were used to fight illness and disease

•based his knowledge of the human body on observations of the external body

• Hippocrates

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Edward Jenner

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

discovered that the mind has a conscious and unconscious realm, his studies are the basis for psychology and psychiatry

• Jonas Salk

• Sigmund Freud

• Sir Alexander Fleming

• Gerhard Domagk

established the principles of heredity & recessive/dominant traits

• Paul Ehrlich

• Clara Barton

• Gregory Mendel

• Dmitri Ivanovski

known as “Father of Microbiology” discovered many disease causing organisms

• Wilhelm Roentgen

• Joseph Lister

• Paul Ehrlich

• Robert Koch

invented the 1st mercury thermometer

• Ignaz Semmelweiss

• Benjamin Franklin

• Joseph Priestly

• Gabriel Fahrenheit

invented bifocals and discovered that colds could be passed from person to person

• Ernst von Bergmann

• Benjamin Franklin

• Robert Koch

• Edward Jenner

the 1st female physician in the U.S. in 1849

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Florence Nightingale

• Dorthea Dix

• Norma Pruitt