1. A Brief History of Health

2. 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

3. Brain surgery!

4. “Trepanation”

5. 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
Dr’s at this time identified symptoms of malaria, scarlet fever, and typhus
Growing belief that diseases were caused by environment

6. Advanced trepanation…

7. Surgeries of the 11th century

8. Early Chiropractic

9. Plastic surgery!

10. Hey bud, what time you got?

11. The lowly Barber-surgeon

12. 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

13. 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

14. Surgical theater – 1800’s

15. Battlefield surgery…

16. 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

17. Surgical theater – 1900 century

18. Modern Era
Bacteriology Phase
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.

19. 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