Yaw history of healthcare

By 28loyaw
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused?

    Evil spirit
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Prayer
    Blood letting
    Amputation
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis for heart
    Quinin for digestion
    Morphine for pain.
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    First health care recorded
    Physicians were priest
    Splinting fractures
    Drain blood
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancients Chinese

    First to us acupuncture
    Used stone tools
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Greeks saw illness was natural not spiritual.
    Hippocrates was the father of medicine
    Religion in Greek did not all for dissections
  • 100 BCE

    Ancients Roman’s

    Built public baths with filtering by using acueductos that carried clean water.
    Organized medical care by sending tools and equipment to army’s and physicians.
    Physicians kept an empty room in their house for their patinas which were the start of hospitals.
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped study of medicine why?

    The Huns concurred the Roman’s empire which caused the studie of medicine to stop.
  • 700

    How do they treat disease

    The church believed in prayer as a treatment and some herbal medicine.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Epidemics was the reason of millions of deaths. The black plague caused over 60 million casualties.
    Smallpox
    Diphtheria
    Syphilis
    Tuberculosis
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth?

    University’s for learning and Medical research were built.
    Dissection for the study of the body was accepted.
    The printing press was developing and more books were being published.
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th century

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Da Vinci recorded the human body and studied it.
  • 1550

    Gabrielle fallopius

    Gabrielle was the first person to discover the fallopian tube leading from female anatomy.
  • 1563

    Bartolommeo eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from ear to the throat

  • William Harvey

    Was able to describe and understand the circulation of blood to the heart.

  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek

    Invented the microscope which established there is life smaller the we can see.

  • Apothecaries

    Were early pharmacies that dealer in drugs and spices.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Discovered bifocals and colds cold could be passed around.

  • Medical student learning

    Students attended lectures and laboratory and work at patients bedside.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Discovered the element of oxygen and that plants refresh air with oxygen when the air is without it.