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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases Caused By?
It was believed that diseases were caused by the supernatural. -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sicknesses?
Doctors tried exorcising the evil spirits through ceremonies, they would also use herbs and plants as medicines. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
They use Digitalis (from foxglove plant), Quinine (from bark of the cinchona tree), Belladonna and Atropine (both from the poisonous nightshade plant), and Morphine (from the opium poppy). -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
The earliest people to keep health records that were accurate were the Egyptians. The Egyptian priests were the physicians, and they helped heal people by bloodletting. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
As early as the Stone Age, the ancient Chinese figured out how to use acupuncture therapies to treat illnesses and diseases using stone tools. It developed into a more advanced practice as time passed. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
The Greeks were the first to determine that illness was natural and not because of the supernatural. Body’s were not to be dissected during these times because their religion didn’t allow it. Hippocrates based his knowledge off of what he could see. -
100
Ancient Romans
The Roman were the first to organize medical care, they would wear masks with a beak to protect themselves from illness and kept a separate room for the sick. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Why stop the study of medicine?
Monks and Priests didn’t care for physical treatments and focused their own practice on God. Their form of treatment was praying. -
700
How do they treat diseases?
They prayed and suede herbal mixtures, “care was custodial.” -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
The epidemics killed millions, there was many uncontrolled diseases such as smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, tuberculosis, and the worst one being the bubonic plague. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance