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Makayla Burky, Health Care History

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  • 4000 BCE

    Primitive Time

    Primitive Time
    • Illness and diseases were a punishment from the Gods
    • Tribal witch doctors treated illness with ceremonies
    • Herbs and plants used as medicines (morphine and digitalis)
    • Trepanation or trephining to create a hole in the skull
    • Average life span 20 years
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ancient Egyptians
    • Physicians were priests
    • Bloodletting or leeches used as medical treatment
    • Average life span 20 years
    • Oldest historic phase of medicine
    • First to use and record advanced medical practices
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Ancient Chinese
    • Believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body
    • Recorded a pharmacopoeia of medications based mainly on the use of herbs
    • Used therapies such as acupuncture
    • Began to search for medical reasons for illness
    • Average life span was 20-30 years
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks
    • First to observe the human body and the effects of disease – led to modern medical sciences.
    • Believed illness is a result of natural causes
    • Used therapies such as massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment
    • Average life span 25-35 years
    • Based largely upon religious beliefs
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    Ancient Romans
    • Established first hospital (caring for solders in their homes)
    • First public health and sanitation systems by building sewers and aqueducts
    • Average life span 25-35 years
    • Galen influenced both roman and European medicine
    • Focused on public health
  • 400

    Dark Ages

    Dark Ages
    • Began after the fall of the Roman Empire
    • Emphasis on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited
    • Monks and priests treated patients with prayer
    • Average life span 20-30 years
    • They used "bloodletting"
  • 800

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    • Renewed interest in medical practices of Greek and Romans -
    • Bubonic Plague killed 75% of population in Europe and Asia
    • Average life span 20-35 years
    • Used leeches
    • Medical practitioners were also still heavily influenced by Galen
  • 1350

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    • Dissection of body led to increased understanding of anatomy and physiology
    • Invention of printing press allowed medical knowledge to be shared
    • Average life span 30-40 years
    • Increase in anatomical knowledge
    • Physicians developed better cures
  • 1501

    16th and 17th centuries

    16th and 17th centuries
    • Cause of disease still not known – many people died from infections
    • Invention of the microscope allowed physicians to see disease-causing organisms.
    • Apothecaries led to development of pharmacies
    • First vaccination developed – smallpox
    • Average life span 35-45 years

  • 18th,19th,20th,21st Centuries

    18th,19th,20th,21st Centuries
    • Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals
    • Viruses discovered in 1892
    • Found out how white blood cells protect against disease
    • Average life span 90-100 years
    • The standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, required under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996, went into effect in 2003