Loch History of Healthcare Timeline

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for Sick?

    Exorcisms
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines Used Today?

    • Digitalis
    • Quinine
    • Belladonna and atropine -Morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records:
    - Earliest people to keep accurate health records. Who are physicians:
    - Priests How did they heal:
    - Bloodletting: (with the use of leeches)
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of Accupuncture:
    - They figured out they could use stone tools to heal people and now they still use it today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual:
    • First to study that causes of disease and determine illness may have natural, rather than spiritual, causes. (Helped eliminate superstition)
    Dissection:
    • During the ancient times, religious customs did not allow bodies to be dissected.
    Hippocrates:
    • The father of medicine, Hippocrates based his knowledge of anatomy and physical biology on observation of the external body.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Period: to

    21st Century