Logue history of health care

By Sophia logue
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early begging

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused

    Evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Prayer, Blood letting, amputations
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today

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

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records- the earliest people to keep health records.
    Who are physicians?- the priest acted ad physician
    How did they heal?- medicine, bloodletting,leeches
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture- used stone tools to make acupuncture
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illnesses cause nature vs spiritual- observe the illnesses to determine nature vs spiritual
    Dissection- did not allow dissections
    Hippocrates- the father of medicine
  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    Sanitation systems- clean water
    Organize medical care- the first, sent medical equipment with armies to cure wounded soldiers.
    Hospital development- public buildings
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine?

    Had no interest on how body functions
  • 700

    How do they treat diseases?

    Vaccines and medications
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics- caused millions of death
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    Universities-for research
    Dissections- body of study
    Books- greater access to knowledge
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo de Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tube of the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat

  • William Harvey

    Used his knowledge to understand physics, he could describe the circulation of blood and pumping the heart.

  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope, established there is life smaller than the eye can see, found cause of tooth decay.

  • Apothecaries

    In midieval england, these apothecaries engaged in an flourishing trade in drugs and spices from he east.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discoveries include bifocals and found that colds can be passes from person to person

  • Medical students learning

    Attended lectures in classroom and laboratory but also observed patients at the bed side