Hipke History of Healthcare Timeline

By 28emhipkee
  • Period: 4000 BCE to

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Trephining
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    • digitalis
    • quinine
    • belladonna and atropine
    • morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    • accurate health records
    • the priests acted like physicians
    • heal disease, learned the art of splinting fractures, and bloodletting with leaches
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture to release pressure points.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    • illnesses might have natural causes or spiritual causes of disease.
    • religions did not allow dissection of the bodies
    • the anatomy and observation of the body instead.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    • kept a room in their house for the ill
    • wore a death mask They were paid by the Roman government to have the public building for the ill.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    • the church believed that life and death were in Gods hands
  • 700

    How did they treat disease?

    • they used herbal mixtures, and care was custodial
  • Period: 800 to 1350

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    this alone killed 60 million people.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Period: to

    19th and 20th centuries

  • Period: to

    21 century