Schramm History of Health Care Timeline

By 27onschramm
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early Beginings

  • 3900 BCE

    Disease Caused by?

    Evil Spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments for sick

    tribal doctors performed ceremonies to exorcise the evil spirts
  • 3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Digitalis, used for heart conditions
    Quinine, used to control fevers relieve muscle spasms and prevent malaria
    Belladonna and atrophied, used to relieve muscle spasms and in gastrointestinal pain
    Morphine, used for pain
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient Times

  • 2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Health records, they were the first people to keep accurate records to know the patients history to know the best way to treat the patients
    Who are physicians, the priests acted as physicians
    How did they heal, they used medicine for diseases they learned how to splint fractures and they treated disorders by bloodletting with leaches
  • 1900 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Development of acupuncture, they learned to treat various of diseases and illnesses by the use of stone tools. Some methods after still used today.
  • 900 BCE

    Ancient Greeks not done

    Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual,
    Dissection,
    Hippocrates,
  • 100

    Ancient Romans not done

    Sanitation Systems,
    Organize medical care,
    Hospital development,
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark Age

  • 500

    Stopped the study of medicine, why? Not done

  • 700

    How do they treat disease? Not done

  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle Age

  • 1100

    Epidemics not done

  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth not done

    Universities,
    Dissection,
    Books,
  • Period: 1505 to

    16th and 17th Centuries

  • 1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

  • 1550

    Gabrielle Fallopius nd

  • 1563

    Bartolommeo Eustachio nd

  • William Harvey nd

  • Antoine von Leeuwenhoek nd

  • Apothecaries nd

  • Period: to

    18th Century

  • Benjamin Franklin nd

  • Medical students learning nd

  • Edward Jenner nd

  • Rene Laennec nd

  • Period: to

    19th and 20th Centuries

  • Ignacio Semmelweis nd

  • Florence Nightingale nd

  • Louis Pasteur nd

  • Dimitri Ivanovski nd

  • Joseph Lister nd

  • Ernst von Bergman nd

  • Robert Koch nd

  • Paul Ehrlich nd

  • Wilhelm Roentgen nd

  • Anesthesia nd

  • Sir Alexander Fleming nd

  • Sifmund Freud nd

  • Gerard Domagk nd

  • Jonas Salk nd

  • Albert Sabin nd

  • Francis Crick and James Watson nd

  • Christian Barnard nd

  • Ben Carson nd

  • Period: to

    21st Century