A Brief History of Health

Ancient times 2000 BC Bathrooms and drainage ditches found at excavation sites Bible – rules for sanitation, personal cleanliness, and disposal of refuse 500 BC Greeks developed medicine and practiced games of strength and skill Romans institute hospitals

Brain surgery!

“Trepanation”

Middle Ages 500-1500 AD Renaissance 1500-1700 Health problems “caused” by demons and evil spirits. Health and religion were intertwined. Plague killed 25 million people Renaissance 1500-1700 Dr’s at this time identified symptoms of malaria, scarlet fever, and typhus Growing belief that diseases were caused by environment

Advanced trepanation…

Surgeries of the 11th century

Early Chiropractic

Plastic surgery!

Hey bud, what time you got?

The lowly Barber-surgeon

1800’s Pre-Industrial Era 1800-1850 Ancient Greek practice of bleeding and purging still practiced. Surgery w/o anesthesia. Health quackery thrives as American expands west. 1837 – Horace Mann, Secretary of the US Board of Ed. advocated for physical strength and health for all school kids. 1837 – Public Health recognized as needed for sanitation problems Harvard offers course in Hygiene – it consists of 5 lectures

1800’s Modern Era 1850-1910 1850 Shattuck Report: Established Boards of Health Collection of Vital Statistics Inclusion of preventive medicine Warnings about tobacco, alcohol, spoiled food and false cures Health education in schools

Surgical theater – 1800’s

Battlefield surgery…

Modern Era Miasma Phase 1850-1880 Disease thought to be caused by breathing noxious vapors. Quarantine was the order of the day 38 states were teaching health in schools and over 35 textbooks were devoted specifically to health

Surgical theater – 1900 century

Modern Era Bacteriology Phase 1880-1910 Discovery that microorganisms caused disease – yet no cures or treatment found for many diseases. Physical education became mandatory in many schools and became a major in college. Medical inspections become mandatory in schools. Open-air classrooms became the rage.

Modern Era Health Resources Phase 1910-Present day 1910 – School Health becomes separate from Physical Education 1918 – Georgia Normal School offer first degree in Health Education 1918 – Health is recognized by US Gov’t as one of 7 educational objectives in schools