Kabara history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beggings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treaments for sick

    prayer
    Blood letting
    Herbs
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis- pill comes from foxglove plant, treats heart conditions
    Quinine- controls fever, relives muscle pain, and prevents malaria comes from cinchona tree Belladonna and atropine- relieves muscle pain and GI pain comes from poisonous nightshade plant Morphine-treating severe pain used when nothing else will help because its addicting comes from opium poppy plant
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    health records- the first people to keep accurate ones. The priests were physicians, they healed people by using medicines, they splinted fractures and they used bloodletting.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    The Chinese people were the first to use acupuncture they did this with stone tools to treat diseases and illnesses
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    They had temples of healing. They were the first to study class of diseases. religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocarates was known as the father of medicine he kept notes of signs and symptoms of the external body. The Greeks learned the effects of disease. They found out that it was caused by lack of sanitation, this was the start of public sanitation and health.
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    first to organize medical care, Roman physicians kept rooms for the ill in their homes this was the beginning of hospitals, Roman physicians were paid by the Roman government. They wore a mask that they believed kept infections and bad orders away
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    the study of medicine was stopped for 1000 years in the church only convents and monasteries practiced medicine. The churched stopped because they believed that the body was in Gods hands and the primary source of medicine was prayer.
  • 700

    How did they treat disease

    church- prayer
    Other- herbal mixes and care was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    causes millions of deaths, the bubonic plague killed 60million, uncontrolled disease like smallpox, diphtheria, and tuberculosis also killed many
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Saw a rebirth in learning there were any developments like universities and other buildings for research. They had new ideas for disease, it was now socially acceptable for the dissection of the body. The printing press was made, they were publishing books allowing for greater access and knowledge.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th century

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    discovered the fallopian tubes
  • 1563

    Bartlommeo Eustachio

    discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat
  • William Harvey

    describe the circulation of blood pumping to the heart
  • Antonine von Leeuwenhoek

    invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    florishing trade of drugs in the east
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    he discovered that colds can be passed from person to person
  • Students

    observed patients at the bedside and observed disease progression
  • Joseph Priestley

    discoverd the oxygen element
  • Edward Jenner

    discovered the smallpox vaccine
  • Rene Laennec

    made the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Florence Nightingale

    Helped improve the dirty imvermant
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    found the cause of childbed fever
  • Luis Pasteur

    discovered that microorganisms are everywhere
  • Dmitri Ivanovski

    discovered viruses
  • Joseph Lister

    first to use antiseptics in surgery
  • Period: to

    21st century