History of Healthcare

By 28kabarber
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease cause

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Prayer,Blood letting,
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

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

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health Records- Accurate Physicians learn to identify diseases and discover ways to heal them. Medicine
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Methods developed over time to what we now use today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Caused by nature- Germs or lack of sanitation
    Caused spiritual-kept records to tell if it was by supernatural forces Did not allow dissection Based off of knowledge on anatomy
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Brought clean water to cities and sewers for waste Sent medical equipment to armies for soldiers with wounds Roman physicians created a room in their house to take care of sick people
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 600

    Medicine

    They believed that death was held in gods hands and he would decide peoples death Discovered vaccines and medications
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Cause of many deaths
    -Plague
    -smallpox
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance