Hasser History Of Healthcare Timeline

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by?

    evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Performed ceremonies to get rid of evil spirits
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    • Digitalis is used to treat heart conditions and problems
    • Quinine helps reduce fever, releases muscle spasms and helps prevent malaria
    • Belladonna helps with relieving muscle spasms especially in gastrointestinal
    • morphine help relieve pain and is only used when nothing else will help
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    • They where the first too use health records
    • physicians normally where the priests
    • they healed by the use of leaches
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    They where to first to use acupuncture and they found it helped a lot to heal and tread illness and disease.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    • They where the first too use study the causes of disease and if they where from natural causes
    • due to religion it was not allowed for the body to be dissected
    • Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called the oath of Hippocrates
  • 100 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    • they were the first to organize healthcare and sent medical equipment and physicians for wounded soldiers
    • it was the start of hospitals and many of the physicians kept a room out of there house for the sick
    • Roman physicians wore a “death mask,” this mask had a spice-filled break, which they believed protected them for infection, and bad orders
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine?

    They stopped the study of medicine because the church believed life and death where in gods hands.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    • the primary treatment the y used was prayer and medication consisted of herbal mixes and the care during that time was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Bad epidemics caused lots of deaths during this time, The Black Death alone killed 60 people, and on top lots of other diseases like small pox, syphilis, diphtheria where killing more people. Without vaccines and the right medicine these diseases became epidemics.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    • many universities and schools for medical research where created
    • the search for more information and ideas about diseases came upon during this time
    • the acceptance of dissection
    • improvement o printing press an publishing of books provided more knowledge
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo De Vinci

    • studies the anatomy of the body and recorded information on the anatomy