Raljevic History of Health Care

By Sofia Raljevic
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    Doctors treated sickness by, Prayers, blood leading, exersixums, and amputation.
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Medicines used today include:
    Digitalis- Heart conditions
    Quinine- Digestion
    Belladonna and atropine-
    Morphine- Pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    • Kept health records
    • Preist
    • Draining of blood and pointed fractures
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    The development of acupuncture was using acupuncture and stone tools.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Ancient Greeks found illness was caused naturally rather and NOT spiritually.
    During ancient times for religious reasons they were not allowed to dissect bodies
    Hippocrates wrote the standers of ethics