History of Healthcare Morlan

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused by?

    Evil Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the Sick

    Prayer, Exorcisms, Blood Letting, Medicines
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Digitalis-heart conditions
    Quinine-fever, malaria, spasm
    BelladonnaAtropine-muscle spasms
    Morphine-pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    1st accurate health records, Priests-Physicians, medicine to heal
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Treat variety of illness, stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Sacred temples of healing, natural causes, massage, herbal therapies, religious customs not allow bodies dissected, father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Clean water, baths, medical care for sick/injured, room in house for ill
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the Study of Medicine

    Roman Empire conquered, believed life and death in God’s hands
  • 700

    How do they Treat Disease?

    Herbal mixtures, custodial care
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphillis, tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Medical schools and universities for research, acceptance of dissection of body, published books for better access to research
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded anatomy of human body
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes of female anatomy
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered tube leading from ear to throat
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Described circulation of blood and pumping of heart
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented microscope, life smaller than eye can see, found bacteria on teeth
  • Apothecaries

    Traded drugs and spices from the East
  • Period: to

    18th Century