History of Healthcare

The Dark Ages

476

-Dark Ages refers to the initial five hundred years following the fall of Rome in 476.
-The concept arised from an italian scholar named Petrarch
-Films and novels often use the term "Dark Age" with its implied meaning of a time of backwardness
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700 B.C 1st greek medical school opened

Jan 1, 700

*700 B.C 1st greek medical school opened
*Hippocrates oath
*Aristotle knowen for human and animal anatomy, to metaphysics

Hua To

Nov 2, 1000

One of the most famous physicians/surgeon of traditional Chinese medicine was Hua To (110-207 CE) also lived during the Eastern Han period. Hua To was the first of the Taoist physicians, the most famous doctor in ancient China who developed/invented the use of anaesthesia called Mafei San, and furthered the limited Chinese knowledge of anatomy. He was the first person who used narcotic drugs in the world and his skill in this field was ahead of the west about 1600-1700 years.

Zhang Zhongjing

Nov 2, 1001

Zhang Zhongjing (150-219 CE), the most famous of China's ancient herbal doctors lived during the Eastern Han dynasty was known for his remarkable medical skill. He wrote a book a medical masterpiece entitled Shang Han Lun or "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". To date Zhang Zhongjing's theory and prescriptions are still of great practical value. It is still used as a standard reference work for traditional Chinese medicine, including moxibustion, needling and herbal medicine.

oldest medical textbook

Nov 2, 1002

Hung-Di Nei-Jing is the oldest medical textbook in the world, different opinions date the book back to between 800 BCE and 200 BCE. Yellow Emperor's Cannon of Internal Medicine lays a primary foundation for the theories of Chinese medicine which extensively summarizes and systematizes the previous experience of treatment and theories of medicine, such as the meridian theory, as well as many other issues, including, physiology, pathology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, acupuncture and moxibust

Spectacles

Nov 1, 1340

Was invented

Black Death

Nov 2, 1348

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Of several competing theories, the dominant explanation for the Black Death is the plague theory, which attributes the outbreak to the bacterium Yersinia pestis

Medicaine in Aciient Rome

Nov 1, 1401

Ancient Roman medicine combined many strageties using different tools and rituals. Romans also believed in spirtual gods.

Printing Press

Nov 1, 1439

Was invented

Printing Press

Nov 1, 1440

Thanks to the printing press, medical students were able to study books with clear diagrams of the human body. Invented by Johannnes Gutenberg

Disecting Corpses

Nov 2, 1489

Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses. After criminals had been convicted they were often used for disecting. People would also dig up graves to observe them.

Circulation of Blood

Jan 1, 1628

William Harvey published An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals that described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.

Meningitis

May 2, 1661

1661 - Thomas Willis describes a case of meningitis

Trochlear Nerve

Jan 1, 1670

1670 - William Molins names the trochlear nerve

Industrial Revolution

Nov 2, 1796

1796 Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus.

Nitrous Oxide

Jan 1, 1800

Sir Humphry Davy announces the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide.

Antibiotics

Nov 1, 1800

Was almost impossible to cure disease

Industrial Revolution

Nov 2, 1800

1800 Sir Humphry Davy announces the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide, although dentists do not begin using the gas as an anesthetic for almost 45 years.

First successful blood transfusion

Nov 1, 1818

James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.

Industrial Revolution

Nov 2, 1844

1844 Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.

Insulin

Nov 1, 1922

insulin was first used to treat diabetes.

Human Genome Discoveries Reach the Bedside

Nov 1, 2011

For the first time the world could read the complete set of human genetic information and begin to discover what our roughly 23,000 genes do.

Combination Drug Therapy Extends HIV Survival

Nov 1, 2011

Moreover, this "cocktail" approach to treatment where drugs are combined in different ways or different sequences has become a model for treating other diseases ranging from lung cancer to heart disease.

Stem Cell Research: Laboratory Breakthroughs and Some Clinical Advances

Nov 1, 2011

Probably no area of research has so fired the public imagination and so ignited the fires of public controversy as that of stem cell research. In reality, this area has generated more political action than reproducible clinical advances -- the much-publicized ban on Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research was rescinded this year.