Woelfel,History of Healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused By?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the Sick

    Blood leading, exorcise, and trephining
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Digitalis-treats heart conditions
    Quinine-controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria
    Belladonna and atropine- relieve muscle spasms
    Morphine-pain medicine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records-first people to keep records
    Who are physicians-the priests
    How did they heal-medicines
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture-first to use acupuncture and used stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs Spiritual-the Greeks were the first to study the causes of disease
    Dissection-religious customs didn’t allow bodies to be dissected
    Hippocrates-the father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation systems-brought clean water into their cities by waterways
    Organize medical care-they physicians and medical equipment with armies for the wounded(physicians also kept rooms in their homes for the ill)
    Hospital development-public buildings for the care of the sick were established
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the Study of Medicine, Why?

    The church believed that life and death was in gods hands
  • 700

    How do They Treat Disease?

    Prayers and medicine consisting of herbal mixtures
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    caused millions of deaths, some include:the black death, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    The rebirth of learning:
    Universities- universities/medical schools were built Dissection-now excepted
    Books-the development of the printing press and the publishing of books