Carr History of Healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused?

    Evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments of sick

    Prayer,blood,letting,exorcisms,amputation
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

    Digitalis- for heart
    Quinine-
    Belladonna and atropine
    Morphine
  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    were the earliest people to keep health records. Priests acted as physicians Blood letting use of leeches ,medicines
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Used stone tools to make acupunctures
  • 900 BCE

    Anicent Greeks

    Observed the illnesses to determine nature vs spiritual Hippocrates : the father of medicine Did not allow dissections
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Clean water : for sanitation systems First to organize medical care and sent medical equipment with army’s to cure wounded soldiers. Public building : hospital development
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine?

    They had no interest on how the body functions
  • 700

    How do they treat diseases?

    Vaccines,and medications to treat diseases
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics : caused million of deaths (the Black Death)
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    rebirth

    Saw the Rebirth of learning Universities : for medical schools to research. Dissection : acceptance of the body for study Books : the development of printing press and the publishing of books, allowing greater access to knowledge from research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci