Bohm History of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginning

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases cause by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Doctors performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    Digitalis; pill form and is a treatment for heart conditions. Quinine; controls fevers, relieve muscle spasms, and prevents malaria. Belladonna and atropine; relieve muscle spasms, especially (GI) pain. Morphine; treats severe pain, it is an addiction medicine.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health Records; they were superstitious and called upon gods to heal them. Who are physicians; the priests. How did they heal; they used medicine, bloodclotting with leaches, drain blood.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese 1900

    Development of acupuncture; treat illness and disease with stone tools, and their practice advance to Chinese acupuncture still used today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient greeks

    Illness cause nature vs spiritual; they discovered that it may have natural, rather than spiritual causes. Dissection; religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates; they did the research and wrote the oath of Hippocrates by recording things.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    sanitations systems; they got clean water, built sewers, and public baths. organize medical care; they were the first to organize the medical and patients. hospital development; the woman physicians specific room for the patients.