Timeline: History of Healthcare

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Aurelius Cassiodorus

-Recommended [to the Benedictine Order] the study of Latin to be translations which preserved medicine information.
- 480-573

Sep 1, 1000

Medicine Wheel

It relates the weather to different kinds of sicknesses.

Nov 1, 1000

Hippocrates

-Known for his good physician skills.
-Hippocratic Oath- Oath for doctors to be ethical.

Jan 1, 1348

Black Death

BLACK DEATH: Most devastating pandemics in the human history. 1348-1350
30-60 percent of Europe’s population.
Took 150 years for Europe to recover.

Nov 1, 1439

typewriter

Gutenberg was the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439. Among his many contributions to printing are: the invention of a process for mass-producing movable type; the use of oil-based ink; and the use of a wooden printing press similar to the agricultural screw presses of the period

Oct 21, 1498

da vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci dissect the human body in 1498. In 30 years, Leonardo dissected 30 male and female corpses of different ages. He also studied the inclination of pelvis and sacrum and stressed that sacrum was not uniform, but composed of five vertebrae.

Nov 1, 1552

Ebers' papyrus

The Ebers' papyrus is the oldest preserved medical document. It is written in hieratic script and contains the most complete record of Egyptian medicine known. The papyrus contains chapters on intestinal disease, helminthiasis, ophthalmology, dermatology, gynecology, obstetrics, pregnancy diagnosis, contraception, dentistry, and the surgical treatment of abscesses, tumors, fractures and burns. The Egyptians say that a depressed skull fracture looked like a puncture in a pottery jar.

Nov 1, 1600

Early 1600's

Middle Age medicine of the 1600's was almost hazardous to your health. People thought that bad hygiene and bad odors made bad health. They believed you got sick from the odors because of sins from the soul. Middle Age medicine was when the knights were alive. They needed a lot of medicine back then because they were always getting wounded by other knights. One of the biggest plagues was the black death

May 1, 1642

Mid 1600's

Despite being excluded from formal education, women provided many paid services that the public needed, including sick-nursing and wet-nursing, midwifery, minor surgery and general physic. Wet-nursing was unlicensed and remained a casual trade - although a very large one. Midwives were unable to form guilds, but they had to be licensed. In the 1600s midwives such as Louise Bourgeois and Jane Sharp became the first to write about their experiences. However, male practitioners were gradually repla

Oct 1, 1700

Early 1700's

There was very little of what we think of health care today in the 1700's. There were almost no medicines of any real value. Surgery very commonly resulted in death since they did not understand about germs. A doctor might set a broken leg or sew up a cut, but even these frequently got infected. Amputation of limbs was common. Some medical practices such as bleeding patients often did more harm than good.

Nov 2, 1700

Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is one of the oldest of all known medical papyri, illustrating the teachings of the Father of Medicine Imhotep.The seventeen columns on the recto comprise part of a surgical treatise.This surgical treatise consists exclusively of cases, not recipes. The treatise is systematically organized in an arrangement of cases, which begin with injuries of the head and proceed downward through the body, like a modern treatise on anatomy.

Nov 1, 1800

Francois Magendie

he was considered the father of pharmocology• Remembered for his experimental proofs that the posterior roots of the spinal canal carry sensory nerve fibers and the anterior roots are motor nerves.
• Analyses of the actions of drugs also made him a founder of the discipline of pharmacology.