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Galen Tracheotomy
First Tracheotomy performed -
Period: 200 to
Medical History
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Period: 200 to Sep 10, 1500
Middle Ages
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201
Barbers
Barber-surgeonsd cut hair, perform surgery, barber pole symbol popularized -
Sep 12, 1100
Autopsy
Autoposies start being performed -
Sep 12, 1167
Oxford
Oxford starts teaching medicine -
Sep 12, 1300
Treating the ill
Christian Monasteries are founded to treat the ill -
Period: Sep 9, 1350 to
Renaissance
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Sep 12, 1350
Black Plague
Took out 25 million in Europe and Asia -
Sep 10, 1400
Jacoba Felicie Incident
Jacoba Felicie was a French midwife who was brought to trial for practicing medicine without license in a time when women were not allowed to. Six witnesses affirmed that Jacoba had cured them, even after numerous doctors had given up, and one patient declared that she was wiser in the art of surgery and medicine than any master physician or surgeon in Paris. However, these testimonials were used against her. (womenspriests.org) -
Sep 10, 1450
Printing Press
n the West, the invention of an improved movable type mechanical printing technology in Europe is credited to the German printer Johannes Gutenberg in 1450. The exact date of Gutenberg's press is debated based on existing screw presses. (wikipedia) -
Use of Scientific Method Begins
The scientific method is the process by which science is carried out. (wikipedia) -
Reflective Microscope
Hooke was not just an observer. When asked to produce a model of the eye for demonstration before the Royal Society, he created one containing an iris diaphragm. This may well have inspired his creation of an improved compound microscope - complete with iris diaphragm and independent light source... (microcopt-uk.org) -
Human Studies
Human anatomical studies allowed for the first time -
Description of Bacteria
Single-celled microorganisms that can exist either as independent (free-living) organisms or as parasites (dependent on another organism for life). (med.health.net) -
Discovery of Blood Cells
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is widely credited as the discoverer of red blood cells. In truth, he was not the first person to observe "red particles" in blood but his observations were more detailed and numerous than those (by Malpighi and Swammerdam) that preceded him . (med-ed-virgnia.edu.com) -
Francis Bacon
He used the microscope to discover plague fleas -
Edward Jenner's 1st Vaccination
Jenner was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.[1][2] He is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human". (wikipedia) -
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Industrial Revolution
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Joseph Lister
Practice of Medical Asepsis -
Robert Koch Discovery of Pathogens
Viral pathogen discovery is of critical importance to clinical microbiology, infectious diseases, and public health. (sciencedirect.com) -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Shows importance of hand washing -
John Snow
He stops outbreak of Cholera -
Discovery of Radioactivity:Madame Curie
Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined[2]), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. (wikipedia) -
Bubonic Plague in SAN FRAN
The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.[1] The epidemic was recognized by medical authorities in March 1900, but its existence was denied for more than two years by Henry Gage, the Governor of California. His denial was based on business reasons: the wish to keep the reputations of San Francisco and California clean and to prevent the loss of revenue (wiki) -
Discoveries
Discovery of organ transplants, x-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, CAT scans -
Discovery of Penicillin
The discovery of penicillin is attributed to Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming in 1928.[16] He showed that, if Penicillium rubens[17] were grown in the appropriate substrate, it would exude a substance with antibiotic properties, which he dubbed penicillin. This serendipitous observation began the modern era of antibiotic discovery. (Wikipedia) -
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Modern World
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First HMO Insurance
A health maintenance organization (HMO) is an organization that provides or arranges managed care for health insurance, self-funded health care benefit plans, individuals, and other entities in the United States and acts as a liaison with health care providers (hospitals, doctors, etc.) on a prepaid basis. (wikipedia) -
Salk Polio Vaccine
The first effective polio vaccine was developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, but it would require years of testing. To encourage patience, Salk went on CBS radio to report a successful test on a small group of adults and children on March 26, 1953; two days later the results were published in JAMA. (Wikipedia) -
Managed Healthcare
Managed health care; growth is uninsured -
SmallPox eradicated
WHO declares smallpox eradicated. -
AZT to combat AIDS
Zidovudine (INN) or azidothymidine (AZT) (also called ZDV) is a nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI), a type of antiretroviral drug used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS infection. AZT inhibits the enzyme (reverse transcriptase) that HIV uses to synthesize DNA, thus preventing viral DNA from forming. (wikipedia) -
Steve Thomas
He used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment -
MIPPA
Medicare Improvements for PAtients and Providers ACT provides incentives for practitioners who use electronic healthy recors and e-prescribing. -
First FDA approved artifical heart
Inserted into a patient who died 2 months later -
Difference between Small Pox and Measles
One of his most innovative assertions related to measles and smallpox. Previously they were lumped together simply as a disease that caused rashes, but through careful observation al-Razi recorded the differences in appearance of the skin inflammations as well as the accompanying physical symptoms, and proposed correctly that they were indeed two distinct diseases. (sciencemuseum.org) -
Mecial Care
Mecical Care becomes regulated
