Lainey Benvenuto Health Care History

Ancient Egyptians

300 BCE

1) Thought the body was made up of air,tears,blood,urine,sperm,and feces.
2) Used magic and medical plants to treat disease.
3) Called the gods to heal them when disease occurred.
4) Physicians were priests who studied medicine and surgery in school.
5) Known to keep health the world first health records.
Average life span- 20-30 years

Ancient Greeks

200

1) Began the medical observation of the effects of disease.
2) Developed a way to observe the human body.
3) Recorded signs of diseases.
4) Dissected animals.
5) Though illness was a natural cause.
Life span - 25-35 years

Ancient Chinese

220

1) Religious prohibitions against dissection resulted in ae knowledge of the body structure.
2) Believed in the need to treat the whole body bu curing the spirit.
3) Began the medical search for illness
4) Used herbs
5) Used needles first
Life span - 20-30 years

Dark Ages

400

1) Saving the soul and study of medicine was not allowed.
2) Prayer was used to treat illness.
3) Monks and priests were used to care for sick people.
4) Medicine was herb based.
Life span- 20-30 years

Ancient Romans

410

1) Created aqueducts
2) Built sewers.
3) Used the first filtering system.
4) Drained marshes.
5) Described how diseases happened.
Life span- 25-35 years

Middle Ages

800

1) Brought back what Greeks and Romans did.
2) Physicians began to take notice of medical universities in the 9th century.
3) Major diseases.
4) Believed blood caused many infectious diseases.
5)Began animal gut for structure material.
Life span- 20-35 years

Renaissance

1350

1) Rebirth of science and medicine.
2) Described the circulatory system in the lungs.
3) Explained how the body is a source of heat.
4) Promoted chemical remedies to treat disease.
5) Fist chairs were created.
Life span- 30-40 years

16th and 17th Centuries

1510

1) Used ligatures to bind arteries together to stop the bleeding.
2) Boiling oil to cauterize wounds.
3) First successful blood transfusion.
4) The membrane in the ear was discovered.
5) The first microscope discovered.
Life span- 35-45 years

18th Century

1714

1) First mercury thermometer.
2) Discovered element of oxygen.
3) First surgeon
4) Vaccine for small pox.
5) Discovered that lime juice had vitamin C.
Life span- 40-50 years

19th Century

1813

1) Used milk to kill diseases.
2) Created a vaccine for rabies.
3) Began professional nursing.
4) First hospital
5) First women's medical college
Life Span- 40-60 years

Primitive Time

1949

1) Believed that illness and disease were caused by super natural spirits and demons.
2) Tribal which doctors treated illness with ceremonies to drive out evil spirits.
3) Herbs and plants were used as medicine.
4)Trepanation or Trephining were used.
5) Average life span was 20 years.

20th and 21st Centuries

2003

1) Sheep were cloned
2) Vaccine for spall pox
3) Coaxed cancer cells
4) First transplant
5) First artificial heart
Life span- 20th - 60-80 21st- 90-100 years