History of Healthcare

By 27grgossen
  • 4000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease Cause

    Early Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for Sick

    Prayer, blood letting, exorcism, and amputation
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today

    Digitalis- For Heart
    Quinine- Digestion
    Belladonna and atropine- Nausea
    Morphine- Pain Medicine
  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Were the earliest to keep accurate health records. The priest took on the role as physicians and used medicines to heal disease. They also learned about splinting fractures and treated some disorders by bloodletting by utilizing leeches.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Were the first civilization to use primitive acupuncture therapies therapies. They learned that these practices could treat a variety of illness and diease with acupuncture therapies. This developed into the advance practice of Chinese acupuncture, and is still used today.
  • 900

    Ancient Greeks

    They were the first to study the cause of dis3ease and determined that illnesses could potentially have natural causes instead of spiritual cause. Also, during ancient times, Religous customs did not allow bodies to be dissected. The father of medicine, Hippocrates, wrote the standards of ethics caked the Oath of Hippocratics.