McElrone history of healthcare

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Diseases caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for the sick?

    Prayer, exorcisms, blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitals, quinine, belladonna, morphine
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records
    Priests were physicians
    They used medicines to heal diseases, they learned the art of splinting fractures, and treated blood disorders by bloodletting
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture:
    Learned to treat a variety of diseases and illnesses with stone tools, still used today
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greece

    Illness cause nature vs. spiritual: first to study the cause of disease and to determine that it may have been natural not spiritual.
    Dissection: religious customs did not allow bodies to be dissected. Studied anatomy from observations on the external body.
    Hippocrates: