Nasia and Health Care History

By Nasia.Blye
  • Primitive Times
    4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    Herbs and plants were used as medicines.
  • 4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    Treated illness with ceremonies by the tribal witch doctors.
  • 4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    To create holes in the skull trepanation and trephining.
  • 4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    Thought that illness and disease were punishment from the Gods.
  • 4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    Average life span is 20 years.
  • Ancient Egyptians
    3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Physicians were used for priests.
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    For medical treatment they used bloodletting and/ or leeches.
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Known to maintain health record accurate by the earliest people.
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Magic and medicinal plants were used to treat disease.
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Average life span was 20-30 years.
  • Ancient Chinese
    1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Acupuncture were used by therapies to relieve pain and congestion.
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Started to search medical reasons for illness.
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Monitored the pulse to determine the condition of the body.
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Moxibustion were used to place on skin and then burned and treat the disease.
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Average life span was 20 to 30 years.
  • Renaissance
    1350 BCE

    Renaissance

    Dissection of the human body led to understand anatomy and physiology.
  • 1350 BCE

    Renaissance

    Printing press was invented allowed the medical knowledge be shared.
  • 1350 BCE

    Renaissance

    Promoted chemical remedies to treat disease by Roger Bacon ( 1214-1294).
  • 1350 BCE

    Renaissance

    Rebirth of science of medicine.
  • 1350 BCE

    Renaissance

    Average life span was 30-40 years.
  • Ancient Greeks
    1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Were to first observe the human body and the effects of disease.
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Massages, art therapy, and herbal treatment by therapies.
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Developed a method to observe the human body.
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Record signs and symptoms of many diseases.
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Average life span was 25 to 35 years.
  • Middle Ages
    800 BCE

    Middle Ages

    Greeks and Romans medical practices were renewed.
  • 800 BCE

    Middle Ages

    Based the diagnose by the signs and symptoms of the diseases.
  • 800 BCE

    Middle Ages

    Used the animals gut for structure materials.
  • 800 BCE

    Middle Ages

    Propose that the blood was the cause of the many infectious disease.
  • 800 BCE

    Middle Ages

    Average life span was 20 to 35 years.
  • Ancient Romans
    753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    First to discover hospitals.
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    Built sewers to help carry waste materials away from the cities.
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    Filtering systems prevent disease in public baths.
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    To reduce malaria they drained marshes.
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    Average life span was 25 to 35 years.
  • Dark Ages
    700 BCE

    Dark Ages

    Study saving the soul and study of medicine were prohibited.
  • 400 BCE

    Dark Ages

    Herbal mixtures were mainly the medications.
  • 400 BCE

    Dark Ages

    Patients were treated by prayers by the monks and priests.
  • 400 BCE

    Dark Ages

    Began after that fall of The Roman Empire.
  • 400 BCE

    Dark Ages

    Average life span was 20 to 30 years.
  • 19th Century
    100 BCE

    19th Century

    Training formal for nurses began.
  • 100 BCE

    19th Century

    Viruses were discovered in 1892
  • 100 BCE

    19th Century

    One microorganism were associated with the disease.
  • 100 BCE

    19th Century

    The women's started to become participants in health care.
  • 100 BCE

    19th Century

    Average life span 40 to 60 year
  • 18th Century
    1 BCE

    18th Century

    Created the first mercury thermometer by Gabriel Fahrenheit( 1686-1736).
  • 20th Century
    1 BCE

    20th Century

    It increased the knowledge about the role of blood in the body.
  • 21st Century
    1 BCE

    21st Century

    Cells were used in treatment of disease of early in the 2000s.
  • 1 BCE

    18th Century

    Scientific surgical procedures and introduce feeding tube by John Hunter( 1728-1793).
  • 1 BCE

    18th Century

    Bifocals invented by Benjamin Franklin.
  • 1 BCE

    18th Century

    Discovered the element oxygen in 1714 by Joseph Priestly.
  • 1 BCE

    18th Century

    Average life span was 40 to 50 years.
  • 1 BCE

    20th Century

    Organ Transplants
  • 1 BCE

    20th Century

    New machines were developed.
  • 1 BCE

    20th Century

    New medications were developed.
  • 1 BCE

    20th Century

    Average life span was 40+ years
  • 1 BCE

    21st Century

    Vaccine to prevent cancer was approved in 2006.
  • 1 BCE

    21st Century

    Te first implantable totally artificial heart was placed in a patient in Louisville, Kentucky in 2001.
  • 1 BCE

    21st Century

    In the Netherlands, it was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia in 2002.
  • 1 BCE

    21st Century

    Average life span is 73 years.
  • 16th and 17th Centuries
    1 CE

    16th and 17th Centuries

    The first vaccination developed.
  • 1 CE

    16th and 17th Centuries

    The cause of disease off disease is still unknown.
  • 1 CE

    16th and 17th Centuries

    Microscopes were invented to allow physicians to see disease causing organisms.
  • 1 CE

    16th and 17th Centuries

    Pharmacies were developed by Apothecaries.
  • 1 CE

    16th and 17th Centuries

    Average life span was 35 to 45 years.