Gerth History of Healthcare

By 28magerth@pulaskischools.org
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases Caused

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Prayer, blood letting, exorcisms
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine Used Today

    Digitalis for heart, Quinine, Belladonna, and Atropine for digestion, and Morphine for pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health Records- Ancient Egyptians were first to keep accurate heath records. They called upon gods to heal them and learned how to identify diseases. Their physicians were priests and they used medicines to heal diseases, learned to splint fractures and treated disorders by bloodletting with leeches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Early medical pioneers treated illness and disease with with stone tools which developed into Chinese Acupuncture.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Were first to study causes of diseases and came to the conclusion that illnesses may have natural rather than spiritual causes. In this time, according to religious custom, bodies were not allowed to be dissected. So Hippocrates based his studies off of the external body and wrote the standard of ethics called the Oath of Hippocrates.