History of Medicine

By maggiepozorski
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle Ages

  • 500

    Medicine only practiced in monasteries and convents

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Used Herbal Tea

  • Jan 1, 1100

    Plagues and Epidemics

    Many plagues and epidemics happend like bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphillis, and turberculosis
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance

    -Medical Schools were built
    -Accepted the study of the body by dissection
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Medical Schools Started Getting Built

    NOTE**** I don't know the exact date
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

  • Jan 1, 1550

    Study by Dissection

    NOTE**** I don't know the exact year
    In the Renissance the study of body by dissection was accepted by the bodies being dissected were "people with a bad soul" and sometimes they were dissected alive.

  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    NOTE I DONT KNOW THE YEAR
    He dissected human bodies and drew what he saw and those became anatomial drawings.

  • Microscope

    Microscope
    NOTE*** I don't know the exact year
    In the 16th and 17th century Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope.

  • Circulation of Blood

    Circulation of Blood
    NOTE*** I don't know the exact year
    In these centuries William Harvey described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.
  • Period: to

    Eighteenth Century

  • Stethoscope

    Stethoscope
    NOTE**** I don't know the exact year
    In the 18th century Rene Laennec invented the first stethoscope which was made of wood.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    NOTE***** I DONT KNOW THE YEAR
    Benjamiin Franklin creates bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person

  • Vaccine for Smallpox

    In 1796 Edward Jenner discovered the vaccien for smallpox accidentally while trying to find a vaccine for cowpox.
  • Period: to

    Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  • Sigmund Freud

    NOTE I DONT KNOW THE YEARS
    Sigmund Freud "Father of Psycologoy" figured out that the mind and body work together.

  • Florence Nightingale

    NOTE I DONT KNOW THE YEAR
    Florence Nightingale started the first school of nursing and made nursing into and honorable profession

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    In 1849 Elizabeth became the first woman certified as a doctor in the United States.

  • Ignas Semmelweiss

    Ignas Semmelweiss
    NOTE I DONT KNOW THE EXACT YEAR
    He identified the cause of maternal infections and instituted hand washing

  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross
    In 1881 Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. She is known as "the angel of the battlefield".

  • X-Rays

    X-Rays
    In 1895 William Roentgen discovered the x-ray and the first x-ray ever taken was of his wife's hand which still had her ring on it.

  • Joseph Lister

    NOTE I DONT KNOW THE YEAR
    Joseph Lister is the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection.

  • Louis Pasteua

    He created the vaccine for rabies and discoverd that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria.

  • Isolated Radium

    In 1910 Marie Curie discovered radiation and eventually ended up dying from it.

  • Robert Koch

    NOTE I DONT KNOW THE YEAR
    "Father of Microbiiology" he discoverd many disease-causing organisms.

  • Penicillin

    In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin the first ever know antibiotic.

  • Polio Vaccine

    In 1952 Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine and now due to the help of the Gates family polio is almost eradicated from the world!

  • Heart Transplant Surgery

    In 1967 Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.