Piwonski-Dickinson history of health care

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by

    Evil Spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    They’ve performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used to today

    Digtails are given in pill form and control heart conditions
    Quinine is a bark. It controls fever, relive muscle spasm’s, and helps prevent malaria
    Belladona and Atropine made from poisonous nightshade and it relives muscle spasms
    Morphine is from opium poppy treating severe pain. (It’s addicting)
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    They were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priest acted as physicians. They healed by using medicine to heal diseases. They loved bloodletting with leeches.