History of Health Care

  • Period: 500 BCE to 1500 BCE

    The Middle Ages

    Reason began to replace belief in spiritual causes for illness
    The beginning of medical care regulation
    Religion and medicine
  • Period: 400 BCE to 500 BCE

    Prehistoric/Ancient World

    The beginning of diet, rest, plants, herbs, and surgery.
    Hippocratic oath of ethics by Hippocrates
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    The Rennaissance

    Age of Enlightenment and the study of anatomy was allowed by the church.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

    Stethoscope was invented, Vaccination began, beginning of modern medicine and disinfecting surgical equipment and hand washing
  • Period: to

    Modern Times

    Antibiotics were invented, Rhodium was discovered, CAT scans, MRI, and ultrasounds are used.