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HOSA Bowl Chapter 1 (History and Trends of
Health Care)
1. Primitive Times: Believe disease tied with religion (spirits and demons)
Tx included herbs, plants, and elimination of spirits/demons
Life span was up to 20 years
2. Ancient Egyptians: Still believed that diseases was caused by religious things
First to maintain health records
Priests=Doctors
Life Span: 20-30 years
3. Ancient Chinese: Strong belief in curing the spirit and nourishing the entire body
Holistic approach to health care (mind, body, and soul)
4. Ancient Greeks: Recorded signs and symptoms; illness was caused by natural
causes
Used diet and cleanliness for prevention
5. Ancient Romans: Organized medical care and developed the first hospitals (inthe
home)
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Developed sanitation and public health focus
Diet, exercise, and medication to treat illness
Life Span: 20-35 years
6. Dark Ages: Study of medicine stopped
Went back to believing that disease was caused by spiritual things - Emphasis on
saving the soul
Life Span: 20-30 years
7. Middle Ages: Renewed practices of the Roman and Greeks
Started medical universities
Began MD licensure/exams (Arabs)
Life Span: 20-35 years
8. Renaissance: Rebirth of science of medicine b/c the acceptance of human
dissection
Knowledge spread more because of the printing press
Life Span: 30-40 years
9. 16th-18th century: Many medical discoveries like microscopes, smallpox vacci-
nation, thermometer, apothecaries (early pharmacy), and identification of the cell
Cause of disease was still unknown
Life Span: 40-50 years
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