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History of Medicine

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  • 100

    Egyptians

    3500-500 B.C
    -Earliest people to keep accurate records
    -Identified some specific diseases
    -Used Medicines to heal disease
    -Splinted fractures
  • 400

    Greeks

    400 B.C.
    -Began the study of disease
    -Hippocrates ("The Father of Medicine" Wrote a code of ethics for physicians-Hippocratic Oath)
    -Natural Explanations-Looked for natural causes rather tahn blaming gods or spirits.
    -Clinical Observations
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle Ages

    400-1400 A.D.
    -The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years.
    - Medicine practiced only in monasteries and convents.
    - Used herbal Medicines.
    - There were many plagues and epidemics: Bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis.
  • Jan 1, 1200

    Public Hygiene Encouraged

    First strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted by the Romans
  • Jan 1, 1300

    Diessection of Human Corpse

    First Dissection of a human corpse was conducted.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance

    1400-1650 A.D.
    - Rebirth of science: REnaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other European intellectual pursuits. -began scientifically studying medicine again.
    -Printing press created "Information superhighway" of it's day.
    -Medical schools were built
    - Accepted the study of the body by dissection. (as long as the bodies were not 'God-fearing bodies'

  • Description of Circulation

    Description of Circulation
    William Harvey discovered the circulation of blood from heart -back to heart.

  • Bacteria Discovered

    Bacteria Discovered
    1670's Bacteria was discovered by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek.

  • First Mercury Thermometer

    First Mercury Thermometer
    First Mercury thermometer was made by Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1724.

  • Vaccine For Smallpox

    Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox.

  • Observation on Smallpox

    Observation on Smallpox
    Edward Jenner discovered smallpox had evolved from cowpox.

  • Practical Anesthetic Introduced

    -First doctor to ever use an anesthetic was Joseph Lister
    - William T.G. Morton used "ether" as Anesthetic.

  • First Woman Doctor

    1849-
    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. ( She inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.)

  • Pasteurization

    Pasteurization
    Louis Pasteur discovered/invented Pasteurization made milk safe to drink by heating it up before consuming it.

  • American Red Cross

    1881-
    The American Red Cross Foundation started by Clara Barton.

  • Discovery of Rabies Vaccine

    Louis Pasteur introduced/discovered the first Rabies vaccination in 1885.

  • Discovery of X-rays

    Discovery of X-rays
    William Roentgen discovered/first utilized the X-ray approach in medical history.

  • Discovery of Penicillin

    Sir Alexander Fleming

  • Polio Vaccine

    1950's- Jonas Edward Salk discovered the first sucessful polio vaccine.

  • First Heart Transplant

    1967-
    Christain Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery. (Sucessful)

  • First "Test-Tube" Baby

    First "Test-Tube" Baby
    Louise Brown was the first test-tube baby that has survived.

  • Aids Gets Named

    Aids gets it's name.

  • Aids is Made Known.

    The Virus "Aids" was first announced to the world.

  • Scientists Clone Sheep

    Scientists Clone Sheep
    Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be cloned by the process of nuclear transfer.