McDowell’s history of healthcare

By Mircea1
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick?

    Prayer, exorcism, blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis, quinine, belladonna and atropine, Morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records, priests as physicians, splitting fractures and blood letting with leaches to heal.
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture:
    Treated a variety of illnesses and diseases using stone tools, still a common use today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs. spiritual:
    First to study the disease and determined that it might be natural not spiritual.
    Dissection:
    Religious did not allow body’s to be dissected. Studied the anatomy from observation from the external body.
    Hippocrates: