Rademacher history of healthcare

By Johannahrad1730
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by

    We believed evil spirits made us sick
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for the sick

    prayer
    Exorcisms
    Blood letting
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    • Digitalis
      Heart pill
    • Quinine
      Cold medicine
    • belladonna + atropine
      Used to relax muscles
    Morphine
    Pain med
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    First accurate health records
    Priests acted as physicians
    They treated bones, used medicines, and blood letting
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    used stone tools to treat illness and provided therapeutic services
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    first to discover illnesses were not spiritual.
    Didn’t allow bodies to be dissected
    Father of medicine and known for anatomy.