Ripkoski History of Heath Care

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease caused by?

    Evil spirits
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatment for the sick?

    They used spiritual practices and herbs
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today?

    They used houny, willow bark, mold
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • Ancient Egyptians
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Heath Records
    They used medical text on papyrus
    Who are Physicians?
    They specialized professionals, who were also called swnw.
    How did they heal?
    They used honey and herbs for wounds.
  • Ancient Chinese
    1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture
    They used sharpened stone and bones to treat pain and illness
  • Ancient Greeks
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual
    They believed that illness was a divine punishment. They used healing deities.
    Dissection
    It was a practice of human cadaveric
    Hippocrates
    He was also called “Father of Medicine”. He also considered medicine as a rational.
  • 100

    Ancient Romans

    Sanitation systems
    The physicians wore death mask that had spied filled beaks.
    Organized medical care
    They sent medication and physicians with the armies to care for them.
    Hospital development
    In Rome hospital were a room in the physicians house before they made separate buildings
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine

    Why?
    The church believe that life and death was in God’s hands.
  • 700

    Disease treatment.

    The main treatment was prayer. There medication was main herbs
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    Over the years millions die from Epidemics. These were the bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis and tuberculosis.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    Universities
    They started to build universities and medical schools for research
    Dissection
    Accepted dissection as a form form of studying the human body
    Books
    Started printing and publishing books to make it easier to access the knowledge from research