History of Healthcare

By Kristin29
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Mayans

    Founded the Kingdom of Uxmal
  • Dec 25, 1066

    Duke Guillaume II of Normandy

    conquered England
  • Jan 1, 1095

    Syria

    Syria split in two with one part being Damascus Government and the other being Aleppo Government
  • Mar 4, 1152

    Frederich I

    Became German king.
  • Jan 1, 1201

    4th Crusade

    Roman Papacy started the 4th Crusade.
  • Jan 1, 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci started dissecting human bodies and drawing the anatomy of the human body.
  • Jan 1, 1556

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
    Wrote many Graeco-Arabic medicine books.

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Invented the microscope

  • Sir Christopher Wren

    First to give medications intraveinously.

  • Dog to dog blood transfusion

    Richard Lower successfully performed a blood transfusion between two dogs.

  • Animal to human transfusion

    Physician Jean Denis successfully transfused blood from a lamb to a boy. Normally, animal to human blood transfusions killed the patient, but in this case the amount was so small the boy's body destroyed the lamb blood without killing him.

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Gabriel Fahrenheit
    He announced his method of making mercury thermometers.

  • James Lind

    Discovered that eating citrus fruits prevents scurvy.

  • First president elected

    George Washington was the first president to be elected in the U.S.A.

  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope

  • First human to human blood transfusion

    James Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion human to human.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    First woman to recieve a medical degree.

  • Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale
    Reformed military hospitals and nursing education in the late 1850's

  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix
    Dorothea Dix traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe in the 1850's and reformed their jails and founded seperate hospitals for the mentally ill.

  • Civil War started

    The Union and the Confederacy went to war.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Discovered that boiling then cooling drinks such as milk and alcohol would kill the bacteria. This process became known as pasteurizing.

  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Traced the history of the bacteria anthrax bacillus

  • Vaccine for cholera

  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton
    Clara Barton was the founder of the American Red Cross. She was called the, "Angel of the Battlefield".

  • Vaccine for Rabies

  • William Roentgen

    William Roentgen
    Discovered x-rays by accident when experimenting with electric current in a partly evacuated glass tube

  • Vaccine for Typhoid Fever developed

  • Plague vaccine developed

  • Blood groups discovered

    Karl Landsteiner discovered 3 of the human blood groups.

  • WWI

    Austria, Turkey, and Germany went to war with Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan

  • Insulin

    Insulin used to treat diabetes for the first time.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Discovered a mold in a petri dish with staphylococcus, and there was no staph bacteria surrounding the mold. Fleming named it penicillin

  • WWII

    Germany invaded Poland, causing Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Other countries soon got involved.

  • Selman Waksman

    Discovers streptomycin, antibiotic used for treating tuberculosis.

  • Polio

    First oral polio vaccine.

  • Test tube baby

    First test tube baby born.

  • HIV is identified

  • First lyme's disease vaccine

  • Rhazes

    Identifyed smallpox

  • John X

    John X became the Roman Pope