Beltrand History Of Healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease’s Caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Prayer, bloodletting, amputation
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Digitalis for heart
    Quinine for digestion
    Morphine for pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health Records- the earliest people to keep health records.
    Who are physicians? The Priest
    How did they heal? Bloodletting, medicines, and leaches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture- used stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs. spiritual- observe the illnesses to determine nature vs spiritual.
    Dissection- did not allow dissection
    Hippocrates- the father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation Systems- clean water
    Organize medical care- the first to organize, sent medical equipment with army’s to cure wounded soldiers.
    Hospital Development- public buildings
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    They had no interest in how the body functioned.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    Vaccines and medications
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Caused millions to death
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    Universities- for research
    Dissection- body of study
    Books- greater access to knowledge
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    Discovered fallopian tubes of female anatomy.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube form ear to throat.
  • William Harvey

    Used his knowledge to understand physiology.
  • Antonio von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Early pharmacy’s
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals and that colds are contagious.
  • Medical students learning

    Students observed patients at bedside, if patient died the student would examine the body and discover disseases.
  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element oxygen.