Lefevre history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for the sick

    Prayer, exorcisms, blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    *Digitalis- pill for heart
    *quinine- cold medicine
    *belladonna and atropine- realizes muscle spasms
    *morphine- pain medicine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records- first accurate records
    Who are the physicians- the priests
    How did they heal- used medicine and treated blood disorders as well as healing bones
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture- used stone tools to treat illness and provided therapeutic acupuncture
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause nature vs spiritual- sacred healing temples and the first to discover that illnesses were not spiritual
    Dissection- they didn’t allow bodies to be dissected
    Hippocrates- the father of medicine and known for anatomy
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    sanitation systems- brought clean sanitary water this was the beginning of the sanitation systems
    Organize medical care- ancient Roman’s were the first to organize their medical care
    Hospital development- public hospitals were made and physicians got paid by government
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped study of medicine why?

    They were taken over by nomads from the north causing them to pause the study of medicine. for 1000 years there were also very few people to use or study medicine since most believed that life and death were in gods hands
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    They mostly meditated and preyed since they believed that life or death was in gods hands.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions of deaths
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities- they built universities and schools to study medicines
    Dissection- they accepted dissection
    Book- they published and acknowledged books to study the ways of medicine and illness
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

  • 1563

    Bartolommemo Eustachio

  • William Harvey

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

  • Apothecaries

  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Medical students learning

  • Joseph priestley

  • Edward Jenner

  • Rene Laennec

  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries