Friedman history of health care

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginning

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treats for sick?

    Prayer, exorcisms, blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis- comes from foxglove plant to treat heart condition
    Quinine- comes from bark controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, helps prevent malaria
    Belladonna and atropine- made from poisonous nightshade plant relieve muscle spasm especially in gastrointestinal
    Morphine-made from opium poppy effective medication fro treating severe pain used only with nothing else will help
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health Records-Egyptians the earliest people to keep health records
    Who are physicians-the priests acted as physicians
    How did they heal-they called upon gods to heal them and used medicines to heal diseases
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture- Stone Age first to was primitive acupuncture therapies learned to treat variety illness disease with stone tools developed into the advanced practice of Chinese acupuncture
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause nature vs.spiritual- illnesses have natural causes rather than spiritual causes
    Dissection-to do there religion they couldn’t dissect body’s
    Hippocrates- the father of medicine