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Historicle Events in Health Care

By hoerter446
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    Dark Ages

    Dark Ages
    Study of medicine was prohibited, monks and priests cared for the sick, and medicines were herbal mixtures.
  • Jan 1, 1180

    Apothecaries were first established

    Apothecaries were first established
    They were early pharmisists that made, prescribed, and sold medications
  • Jan 1, 1214

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    he promoted chemical remeidies to help treat diseases. He also researched the bending of light rays (optics and refraction)
  • Jan 1, 1330

    Bubonic Plague

    Bubonic Plague
    A worldwide outbreak that killed 3/4 of the population in Europe and Asia
  • Jan 1, 1350

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    The rebirth of sience of medicine
  • Jan 1, 1510

    Ambroise Pare (father of Moder Surgery)

    Ambroise Pare (father of Moder Surgery)
    A french surgeon who established the use of ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding. He also stopped the use of boiling oil to cauterize wounds. Also started the use of artifial limbs.
  • Jan 1, 1511

    Michael Servetus

    Michael Servetus
    He was the first person to describe the circulation of the lungs and discribed how digestion is a source of heat for the body.
  • Jan 1, 1514

    First Anatomy Book was published

    First Anatomy Book was published
    It was published by Andres Vasalius
  • Jan 1, 1523

    Gabriel Fallopius

    Gabriel Fallopius
    Identified the Fallopian tubes in females. He also described the tympanic membrane in the ear.

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope

  • First Thermometer was Invented

    First Thermometer was Invented
    Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    developed the vaccination for small pox

  • First Succesful Blood Transfusion

    First Succesful Blood Transfusion
    It was done by James Blundell

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invented the first Stethoscope

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    1854-Established efficent and sanitary nursing units during the Crimean War
    1860- She opened the first Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at St.homas Hospital in London
    Began the professional education for Nurses.

  • Aids was identified as a disease

    Aids was identified as a disease

  • Dolly the sheep

    Dolly the sheep
    Dolly is the first sheep to be cloned.

  • Claudius Galen

    Claudius Galen
    He established the Four fluids of humor: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.

  • Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    Started the practice of Medicine up again.

  • Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Based diagnosis on observations of signs and sympotoms. He has suggested that blood was the cause of infectus diseases. Also began the use of animal gut for suture material