History of Healthcare Nischke

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease Caused By?

    Evil Spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    -prayer
    -exorcism
    -blood leading
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    Digitalis- heart medicine
    Quinine- used to treat malaria
    Belladonna and Atropine- treats heart rate problems
    Morphine- pain medicine
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    -detailed dissections
    -accurate drawings
    -studied systems
  • Gabriele Fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele Fallopius

    -studied the reproductive organs in both sexes
    -gave the first in depth description of the fallopian tubes
  • Bartolommeo Eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio

    -described functions of teeth
    -anatomy related to the ear
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    -discovered that the valves in the veins allow blood to flow only in the direction of the heart
    -proved blood circulated around the body and to the heart
  • Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie von Leeuwenhoek

    -discovered bacteria, sperm cells and blood cells
  • Apothecaries

    Apothecaries

    -a person who prepared and sold drugs/medication
  • Period: to 399

    Ancient Times