Lemirande History of Healthcare

By Olivia2010
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease's Caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Prayer, exorcisms, blood letting,
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    -Digitalis (heart medicine)
    -quinine (fevers, muscle spasms, malaria)
    -Belladonna (muscle spasm, GI pain)
    -Morphine (pain)
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    -Very accurate health records
    -Physicians were mostly priests
    -Healed by gods, medicines for disease, splinting fractures, bloodletting with leeches
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    -Created acupuncture
    -Treated variety of illness and disease with stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    -First to find out that illness was natural, not spiritual
    -Not allowed to dissect bodies
    -Hippocrates (Father of medicine)
    -Knowledge from observations
    -Created oath from ethics that physicians still use today
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    -Brought in clean water, made sewers, public baths (sanitation)