Mielke History of Healthcare Timeline

By 28jumielke
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease Caused By?

    Evil Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for Sick?

    They performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits.
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicine used today?

    Digitalis, Quinine, Belladonna, Atropine, Morphine.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    They are the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priests acted as physicians. They used medicine to heal disease.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    These people were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies, they used stone tools to treat illness and diseases.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    They were the first to study the causes of diseases and determined that illnesses may have natural causes and not spiritual. Religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates is the father of medicine.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    The Romans were the first to organize medical care. For sanitization, they worse masks which had a spice-filled beak which the Romans believed protected them from infection and bad odors. Roman physicians kept a room in their houses for the ill which is the beginning of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    The Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns which caused study of medicine to stop.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease?

    The primary treatment was prayer because the Church has believed life and death were in God’s hands.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Rebirth of learning. Building of universities and medical schools for research. Acceptance of dissection of the body for study. Development of the printing press and the publishing of books allowing greater access to knowledge from research.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • 1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

  • William Harvey

    He used this knowledge to understand physiology, he was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.

  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

  • Apothecaries