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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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542
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 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
Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
1066
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
Doctors mixing herbs in with medicine -
1215
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
A patient drinking the medicine they need to drink and a doctor making it. -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1452
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
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
He had more than 10 human dissections. -
Establishments of hospitals
A change in the European health care is that hospitals were created but mostly preserve for the wealthy. -
Renaissance picture
A picture of doctors doing an autopsy -
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
Doctors helpers picking herbs and plants to mix with the medicine. -
Industrial revolution inventions
Medical inventions -
Period: to
Industrial
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Industrial medical advances
Vaccines were created for example chlorea was invented for smallpox. -
Edward Jenner
He created a method to protect people from getting small pox and exposing them to cowpox virus. -
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
The first stethoscope was invented in 1816. -
Successful Blood transfusion
The very first successful human blood transfusion happened. A British obstetrician performed it. -
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
Medicine was improved -
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
Old hospitals -
Period: to
Modern World
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Modern World Picture
Doctors in the olden days. -
Diabetes
Insulin was first used to treat diabetes. -
Influenza
First vaccine developed for influenza. -
James Watson
He discovered/unravelled the human genetic coding also known as DNA. -
Thomas Maiman
He was the to invent the first laser. This laser is now used very often in the medical field. -
21st Century
Goals of legislation -
Period: to
21st Century
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Heart transplant
A group of surgeons in Louisville Kentucky managed to implant a new artificial heart in one of there patients. -
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
He was the first to successfully cure HIV/AIDS by transplanting bone marrow from HIV-immune patient. -
Liver and kidney
Artificial kidney and liver were grown in laboratories. Hopes of manufacturing artificial organs to save lives have risen. -
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 schools are trying to reboot for 21st century.