History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 542

    Health in the middle ages

    Health in the middle ages
    The lack of sanitation and no running water and rushes were used to cover the floors which therefore it increased the problems and illnesses.
  • 754

    Medicine in the middle ages

    Medicine in the middle ages
    Medicine in the middle ages was extremely basic in an era. They were made out of herbs, spices, and resins. The medicine was mixed to drinks, pills, washes, baths, rubs and ointment.
  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
  • 1066

    Middle ages hygiene

    Middle ages hygiene
    This hygiene was extremely basic the the terms of disposable waste known as garbage and products.
  • 1200

    Pictures of the middle ages

    Pictures of the middle ages
    Doctors mixing herbs in with medicine
  • 1215

    Middle age doctors

    Middle age doctors
    Middle ages Physicians -only wealthy people would receive this ministration
    Middle ages surgeons-they associated with companies of barber surgeons
    Middle ages Apothocary-this is a dispenser of drugs or a route for apothecary. Apothecaries belonged to grocer's guild and cosmetics and perfumes, sold sweets as well as drugs.
    Middle ages "Wise Woman''-first person contacted by poor people who used herbs make home made medicines and potions
  • 1300

    Pictures of the middle ages

    Pictures of the middle ages
    A patient drinking the medicine they need to drink and a doctor making it.
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1452

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    He was the founder of modern human anatomy, but before him there was couple attempts on studying the human body.
  • 1493

    Renaissance medicines

    Renaissance medicines
    New cures and new medicines were created or improved physicians developed better cures, they were built upon archaic theory. They added more medicine or special ingredients to the herbs.
  • 1508

    Lenardo da Vinci dissects corpses

    Lenardo da Vinci dissects corpses
    He had more than 10 human dissections.
  • Establishments of hospitals

    Establishments of hospitals
    A change in the European health care is that hospitals were created but mostly preserve for the wealthy.
  • Renaissance picture

    Renaissance picture
    A picture of doctors doing an autopsy
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    He was the first person to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body therefore he also provided experiments and arguments to support his ideas.
  • Printing Press

    Allowed for publication of medicine discoveries.
  • Renaissance picture

    Renaissance picture
    Doctors helpers picking herbs and plants to mix with the medicine.
  • Industrial revolution inventions

    Industrial revolution inventions
    Medical inventions
  • Period: to

    Industrial

  • Industrial medical advances

    Industrial medical advances
    Vaccines were created for example chlorea was invented for smallpox.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    He created a method to protect people from getting small pox and exposing them to cowpox virus.
  • Sir Humphry Davy

    Sir Humphry Davy
    He told the properties of anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide, but dentist didn't use the gas for almost 45 years.
  • Medical advances in industrial Revolution

    Medical advances in industrial Revolution
    The first stethoscope was invented in 1816.
  • Successful Blood transfusion

    Successful Blood transfusion
    The very first successful human blood transfusion happened. A British obstetrician performed it.
  • Greatest disease killer

    Greatest disease killer
    The greatest disease killer in the cities were tuberculosis. this disease caused a wasting of the body with lungs being attacked.
  • Medical inventions in industrial revolution

    Medical inventions in industrial revolution
    Medicine was improved
  • Felix Hoffman

    Felix Hoffman
    He discovered a bark of a willow tree that had salicylic acid therefore when prepared it was made into aspirin.
  • Modern World Picture

    Modern World Picture
    Old hospitals
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Modern World Picture

    Modern World Picture
    Doctors in the olden days.
  • Diabetes

    Diabetes
    Insulin was first used to treat diabetes.
  • Influenza

    Influenza
    First vaccine developed for influenza.
  • James Watson

    James Watson
    He discovered/unravelled the human genetic coding also known as DNA.
  • Thomas Maiman

    Thomas Maiman
    He was the to invent the first laser. This laser is now used very often in the medical field.
  • 21st Century

    21st Century
    Goals of legislation
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Heart transplant

    Heart transplant
    A group of surgeons in Louisville Kentucky managed to implant a new artificial heart in one of there patients.
  • Smoking

    Smoking
    Only in 75 cities of the U.S had a law to prohibited smoking in restaurants. They did this to lower the number of people affected by second hand smoke along with trying to improve the air quality.
  • Dr. GeroHutter

    Dr. GeroHutter
    He was the first to successfully cure HIV/AIDS by transplanting bone marrow from HIV-immune patient.
  • Liver and kidney

    Liver and kidney
    Artificial kidney and liver were grown in laboratories. Hopes of manufacturing artificial organs to save lives have risen.
  • Face plant surgery

    Face plant surgery
    The 28th face plant was conducted in New York City but this was the second face plant surgery done in the U.S.
  • Medical School

    Medical School
    Medical schools are trying to reboot for 21st century.