Watt history of healthcare timeline

By 26kiwatt
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    • taking a part of the cranium out to get rid of demons ( trephining)
    • herbs and plants used as medicine
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    Digitalis- foxglove plant, pill form or injection to treat heart treatments
    Quinine- bark of the cinchona tree, controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, prevents malaria
    Belladonna and atropine- nightshade plant, relieves muscle spasm, GI pain
    Morphine- opium poppy, addictive extremely strong pain kill, “last resort”
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 100

    Ancient Roman’s

    • first organized medical care
    • masks
    • a room in a house was free for the sick
  • 100

    Ancient Egyptians

    • first people to keep health records
    • the priests acted as physicians used leaches to heal skin graphs and restore blood circulation
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?

    • For a period of 1,000 years, medicine was particle only in convents and monasteries
    • the church believed that the life and death was in gods hands
  • 700

    How do they treat disease.

    The primary treatment was prayer
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 900

    Ancient Greeks

    -Medicine was considered an art not just a profession
    -determined that illness is caused by nature not spiritually
    - Kept research on sicknesses
    - Hippocrates- based his knowledge of anatomy and physiology and symptoms of many diseases
  • 1100

    Epidemics

    • The bubonic plague( Black Death) killed 60 million people
    • smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tubercluosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    • med schools and universities built for research
    • dissection of dissection of the body for study
    • development of the printing press and publishing books
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius

    Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    Discovered the tide leading from the ear to the throat (Eustachain tube)

  • William Harvey

    Described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope and found bacteria on your teeth that case tooth decay
  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Ancient Chinese

    • first to used primitive acupuncture therapies