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200
Galen; tracheology
Claudius Galen a Greek doctor who worked in Rome. He wrote over 350 texts on medicines. He disected pigs and apes and took them apart and studied them and thier bone structure. He aslo discovered the tracheotomy, which is an insicion in the windpipe made to relieve the obstruction to breathing. -
Period: 200 to
History of Healthcare
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Period: 200 to Sep 8, 1500
Middle Ages
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476
Fall of the Roman Empire
The fall of the Roman Empire. Rome had ruled much of Europe. Now much of the land would fall into confusion as local kings and rulers tried to grab power. This is the start of the Dark Ages or the Middle Ages. -
500
Middle Ages Begin
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570
Muhammad is born
Muhammad, prophet of Islam is born. -
Sep 9, 600
Monasteries
The teaching of the Christian church also encouraged followers to helo the sick and needy. Many monasteries (wealthiest land owners) were founded specifically to treat the sick. Local healers, sometime women, served at the monasteries. Otherwise, the treatment consisted of prayer and lots of well rest. -
Sep 9, 700
The Beginning of Medical Care Regulation
Physicians were not licensed after formal training with experienced doctors. Physicians and surgeons recieved different training. Physicians learned by reading books and training with experienced doctors. Women were not allowed to practice medicine. -
Sep 11, 1096
The First Crusade
Start of the First Crusade. The Crusades were wars between the Holy Roman Empire and the Muslims over the Holy Land. There would be several Crusades over the next 200 years. -
Sep 11, 1189
New King of England
In 1189 Richard Lionheart becomes the new king of England. -
Sep 11, 1215
King John
King John of England signs the Magna Carta. This document gave the people some rights and said the king was not above the law. -
Sep 11, 1271
Marco Polo
Marco Polo leaves on his famous journey to explore Asia. -
Sep 8, 1300
Islamic Hospitals
Islmaic hospitals; health care for the sick. Religion continued to play a significant role in healthcare. Each hospital had seperate wards for different illnesses, employed trained nurses, and maintained stocks of medication. -
Sep 11, 1337
Wars between England and Frnace
The Hundred Years War begins between England and France for control of the French throne. -
Sep 11, 1347
The Black Death
The Black Death begins in Europe. This horrible disease would kill around half of the people in Europe. -
Sep 8, 1400
Frenchwoman
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied. She was practicing without license.Sh defended herself by explaining that women were sometimes embarrassed to go to a male physician for treatment. The judge did not find in her favor, and she was forbidden to practice medicine. -
Period: Sep 8, 1400 to
Renaissance
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Sep 11, 1420
First Geometric Linear Paintings
Brunelleschi became a famous painter for his two panel paintings illustrating geometric optical linear perspective. His first painting called the Florentine Baptistery is viewed frontally from the western portal of the unfinished cathedral. His second one called Palazzo Vecchio is seen obliquely from its northwest corner. -
Sep 11, 1428
Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
The turning point in the Hundred Year's War between England and France. This was his first major military victory and the first major French success to follow the crushing defeat at Agincourt -
Sep 11, 1444
German Inventor
German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press. This will then signal the start of the Renassaince. -
Sep 11, 1445
Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
Johann's invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period. -
Sep 11, 1453
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Constantinople. This signals the end of the Eastern Roman Empire also known as Byzantium. -
Sep 11, 1464
Cosimo de Medici Dies
Cosmo died on August the first. He was the first of the Medici political dynasty. After his death the Signoria awarded him the title Pater Patriae, "Father of his Country" -
Sep 11, 1492
Columbus Discovers the America's
At 2am on October 12th 1492, a sailor aboard the Pinta by the name of Rodrigo de Triana. He sighted land. New land, known today as America. -
Sep 8, 1500
Renaissance Begins
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Sep 8, 1500
News Spreaded More Quick
In the fifteenth century, the invention of the printing press made it possible to publish books faster. Information about new discoveries could be spread quickly. -
Period: Sep 8, 1500 to
Renaissance
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Sep 11, 1517
Matin Luther and the 95 These
he Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences also known as, The Ninety-Five Theses, was written by Martin Luther, 1517 and is widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. -
Sep 11, 1543
Scientific Revolution
The scientific revolution began in Europe towards the end of the Renaissance era and continued through the late 18th century, the later period known as The Enlightenment. -
Scientific Method
In the sixteenth century the scientific method came into use in Europe. It changed the way people thought about medicine and research. It is a process used to acquire new knowledge. Instead of guessing people started looking for the real causes of what they saw around them. It was based on observation and careful note taking.This method was not common practice during the middle ages. -
Fist Telescope
Robert Hooke built one of the first reflecting telescopes. This allowed more careful observations to be made of patients and symptoms.Doctors could propose an explanation of disease and test it by experimentation and observation. -
Inustrial Revolution Begins
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Human Atonomy Took Place
During the Age of Enlightenment, a philosphical movement of the 1700's, studies of the human atonomy took place. These investigations, which had been forbidden by the church in the past, helped correct many beliefs. -
Edward Jenner
A connection was made between health and the enviroment. Edward Jenner, an English doctor, discovered that milkmaid's exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox. Around 1796 he began inoculating people with the fluid from cowpox blisters, thus the beginning the practice of vaccination. -
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Industrial Revolution
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Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister was ridiculed for insisting on the use of carbolic soap to disinfect instuments and clean hands before doctors moved to another patient. Today we call his practice- the practice of disinfecting surgical equipment and hand washing as a way to prevent the spread of infection. -
John Snow
John Snow had shown clusters of cholera outbreaks in London. He discovered the spread of cholera by contaminated water by doing a bunch of studies and exeriements. He soon then stopped the outbreak of cholera. -
Machines
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, great changes were caused by the introduction of machines. -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch discovered the pathogens, known as a disease- producing microorganisms, which are the source of some diseases and proved that Lister was correct. This was the beginning of modern Bacteriology. -
Stethoscope
New diagnostic tools such as the stethoscope were invented. Blood cells, bacteria, and protozoa could now be seen with a microscope. -
Capillaries
Doctors knew that blood was carried through the body by large vessels, but they did not knowhow blood circulated throughout the body. This was explained by the discovery of capillaries. -
Thinngs were improving
The twentieth century saw rapid growth nin healthcare. Discoveries in electronics and computer science changed clinical medicine dramatically. Antibiotics were invented. Radium, used for cancer treatment, was discovered. The use of x-rays gained importance in noninvasive diagnoses. -
Moden World Begins
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Modern World
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First Televisual Picutre
In 1925 the first Televisual Image was created by a guy named John Logie Baird. He was also the inventor of the television, the first publicly demonstrated colour television system; and the first purely electronic color television picture tube. -
First Electron Microscope
Ernst Ruska creates the first electron microscope in Germany. His invention was fundamental to the progression of science since scientist could now peer deeper into living cells -
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming made a discovery from a contaminated experiement. He discovered a powerful antibiotic, Penicillin. -
Jonas Salk
In 1947 Salk became the head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. He began then investigating the poliovirus. He found that the 125 strains of the virus he had to work with fell into three basic groups. In 1948 reserchers at Harvard discovred that the virus could grow on scraps of tissue, without needing an intact organism like a chick embryo. Bacteria usually contaminated the tissue, then they were now able to get the penicillin. -
Fist Side Images of the Moon
The side of the moon that does not face the Earth is called the "The Dark Side of the Moon''. It has one of the largest graters of our solar system! The finally captured pictures of this. -
2001 Terroist Attack
In 2001 we had a terroist attack. The crashed into the twin woters in New York killing lots of innocent people.There were other properties that were destroyed in the process as well. -
Middle Ages(Rhazes discovery)
Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and weasels. He wrote his findings around CE 900. His works were used until the 1800's. He played a role in the development of medicine as a science by building on the ideas of Hippocrates. -
Scanadien Vikings
Vikings from the Scandinavian lands (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) begin to invade northern Europe. This continued until 1042. -
Clovis
Clovis becomes King of the Franks. Clovis united most of the Frankish tribes that were part of Roman Province of Gaul.