short timeline of early healthcare advancements
Early Beginnings
In the beginning of time humans believed that illness and disease was caused by super natural forces. Tribal doctors performed ceremonies to rid their patents of evil spirits. One of the ceremonies was trephining, trephining is where the doctor would remove a part of the brain with a primitive tool. They also used herbs and plants as medicines.
Digitalis comes from the foxglove plant, it is used to strengthen and slow the heart rate. It was originally given where the patient chewed the leaves. Now it can be given in pill form or injected.
Quinine comes from the bark of the cinichona tree, it controls fevers, muscle spasms and helps prevent malaria. The bark is ground into a powder then mixed with water to be taken orally.
Belladonna and atropine comes from the nightshade plant. They also relieve muscle spasms but also relieve gastrointestinal (GI) pain.
Morphine comes from the opium poppy; it is very effective for severe pain but is used only as a last resort when other pain medication fails.
The Renaissance
The renaissance is known for being the time of rebirth for learning. It was a great period of intellectual growth and artistic development. Scientists began to move away from normal views of medicine that governed the east and west. The printing press was created, university’s and medical schools were built, dissecting dead body’s for research was accepted and no longer looking to god for the understanding of a disease.
Gilles de Corbeils 1490 Writes a book on urine and the pulse, it is the first illustrated book printed.
Girolamo Fracastoro In 1530
Fracastoro creates the name syphilis for the French disease.
London’s royal college of physicians 1565
The first medical school given the power to dissect humans for medical research. university of Pennsylvania 1765
The University of Pennsylvania School of medicine opened. It is the first medical school in the U.S.
The sixteenth and seventeenth century
The desire to
In the beginning of time humans believed that illness and disease was caused by super natural forces. Tribal doctors performed ceremonies to rid their patents of evil spirits. One of the ceremonies was trephining, trephining is where the doctor would remove a part of the brain with a primitive tool. They also used herbs and plants as medicines.
Digitalis comes from the foxglove plant, it is used to strengthen and slow the heart rate. It was originally given where the patient chewed the leaves. Now it can be given in pill form or injected.
Quinine comes from the bark of the cinichona tree, it controls fevers, muscle spasms and helps prevent malaria. The bark is ground into a powder then mixed with water to be taken orally.
Belladonna and atropine comes from the nightshade plant. They also relieve muscle spasms but also relieve gastrointestinal (GI) pain.
Morphine comes from the opium poppy; it is very effective for severe pain but is used only as a last resort when other pain medication fails.
The Renaissance
The renaissance is known for being the time of rebirth for learning. It was a great period of intellectual growth and artistic development. Scientists began to move away from normal views of medicine that governed the east and west. The printing press was created, university’s and medical schools were built, dissecting dead body’s for research was accepted and no longer looking to god for the understanding of a disease.
Gilles de Corbeils 1490 Writes a book on urine and the pulse, it is the first illustrated book printed.
Girolamo Fracastoro In 1530
Fracastoro creates the name syphilis for the French disease.
London’s royal college of physicians 1565
The first medical school given the power to dissect humans for medical research. university of Pennsylvania 1765
The University of Pennsylvania School of medicine opened. It is the first medical school in the U.S.
The sixteenth and seventeenth century
The desire to