history of healthcare

  • 200

    Galen

    Galen is a physician that treated injured gladiators. He documented the importance of the spinal cord. He also discovered how to cure breathing difficulties by using tracheotomy.
  • Period: 200 to

    history if health care

  • Period: 500 to Sep 4, 1500

    middle ages

    People stopped believing that spiritual or superstitious cause illnesses.
  • Sep 9, 1300

    Islamic Hospitals

    Islamic Hospitals
    The Islamic hospitals start the medical care. Women were not allowed to practice medicine.
  • Period: Sep 9, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 8, 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    Jacoba Felicie
    Jocoba Fellicie is a french women that practice medicine without a license.
  • Scientific Method

    The scientific method is used in Europe.
  • Reflecting Microscope

    Reflecting Microscope
    Robert Hooke built the first reflecting microscope.
  • Anronie Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anronie Van Leeuwenhoek
    He discibes what bacteria is.
  • Philosophical movement

    Studies of the human anatomy took place in which helped correct many beliefs.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner ,a English doctor ,began the practice of vaccination.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Carried experiments that became basis for modern microbiology.
  • Joseph Lister

    Insisted on using carnolic soap to disinfect instruments and clean hands. This practice is called medical asepsis.
  • Robert Koch

    Discovered pathogens.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    He shows the importance of washing your hands.
  • Marie Curie

    Discovered the science of radioactivity
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming

    He discovered penicillin.
  • HMO

    The first HMO insurance was made.
  • Gardasil

    Vaccine to preent cervical cancer
  • MIPPA

    (Medivare Improements for Patients and Providers Act) provides incentives for practitioners who use electronic health records and e-prescribing.
  • Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Dr. Rhazes discovered the differance between smallpox and measles.