Health Care Timeline Ancient Times

  • 3000 BCE

    Primitive Times 4000 BC- 3000 BC

    Believed that illness and diseases were caused by supernatural spirits and demons. Tribal witch doctors treated illness with ceremonies to drive out evil spirits.
    I pick these two because they are really important about how they treated how they treated diseases and how what they thought made the diseases.
  • 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians 3000 BC- 300 BC

    They were the earliest people known to maintain accurate health records.
    Used magic and medicinal plants to treat disease.
    I chose these because the health records helped us make the health records we still used today and it also shows us how they treat diseases.
  • 220 BCE

    Ancient Chinese 1700 BC- 220 AD

    Believed that in the need to treat the whole body is by curing the spirit and nourishing the body.
    Began to search for medical reasons for illness.
    I chose these because it shows us how they would treat the whole body and how to nourish the body and how they chose medical reason they way we use it today.
  • 200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks 1200 BC- 200 BC

    They began the modern medical science by observing the human body and effects of disease.
    Believed illness is a result of natural causes.
    This is important because we still use this today we observe bodies and the effects of disease still to do this today.
  • 410

    Ancients Romans 753 BC- 410 AD

    Discovered that body regulated by four fluids; blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile by Claudius Galen.
    They built sewers to carry waste materials away from cities.
    This is important because the sewer created a healthier way of life and now we now that we have blood and other fluids in out bodies.
  • 800

    Dark Ages 400-800 AD

    Medication were mainly herbal mixtures.
    Monks and priests provided custodial for sick people.
    This is important because they still don't have nurses or doctors yet and they use Monks and priests of them and they haven't made real medication yet.