Gossen history of healthcare

By MeaganGossen
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Preformed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits.
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis is now used to treat heart conditions and is given by pill form, intravenously, or by injections. In the past times to take this medication people chewed leaves of the foxglove plant.