Barber History of Healthcare

By 28kabarber
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Exorcism
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Digitalis for heart
    Quinine for digestion
    Belladonna and atropine
    Morphine
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient times

    Heath records- Accurate
    Who are physicians-learned about ways to solve diseases.
    How did they heal?-Medicine Development of acupuncture- created different ways to treat illnesses
    - improve
    - we still use advanced practice of Chinese acupuncture. -Greeks looked into Illnesses and would find out if it was caused spiritual or nature.
    Spiritual- They kept records to examine
    Nature- They could tell if it was caused by bacteria and germs
    Used death mask- kept bad bacteria from entering their body.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

    Stopped medicine- Church thought that god would decide when you die.
    How do they treat a disease?- Medications and vaccines.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

    Epidemics-
    -sickness killed millions of people
    -Uncontrollable disease
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

    Rebirth
    -new scientific improvent was made
    - Universities and medical schools were in the process of build
    -Dissection was allowed
    -Books for easy access
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries