History of Medicine

By KhyraG
  • 500

    Galen

    He made the tracheostomy.
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Smallpoxs and measels

    Contagious and often spread through coughing and sneezing or even coming in contact with an infected person.
  • 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox.
  • 1300

    Islamic Hospitals

    Health care for the sick
  • 1300

    Christian Monasteries

    Founded to treat the ill.
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied.

  • Reflective Microscope

    Allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria.

  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

    He describes bacteria protozoa. The single celled organisms and he called them animalcules.

  • Francis Bacon

    He used a microscope to discover plague fleas.

  • Microscope

    Microscope used to discover plague fleas and other things we can't see from human eye.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    He discovered 1st vaccination.

  • HMO

    First HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) insurance is an offer wide range of healthcare service.

  • Importance of hand washing

    First time hand washing was stated. Hand washing is to help prevent and control the spread of many illnesses.

  • Stop Outbreak of Cholera

    Cholera requires immediate treatment because the disease can cause death within hours. It's an infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea.

  • John Snow

    He stopped the outbreak of Cholera.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming

    He discovered a vaccination named penicillin.

  • Discovered Organ Transplant

    The kidney was the first human organ to be transplanted successfully.

  • AZT

    AZT (Zidovudine) is a type of anti-HIV (antiretroviral) drug called a nucleoside. AZT is used in combination with other anti-HIV drugs to treat but not cure HIV.

  • Somalia

    Last declared smallpox eradicated.

  • Health Care

    Managed Health care growth in uninsured ways that you could improve health care.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas
    He used sterile maggots for infectious wounds treatments.

  • Gardasil

    Gardasil
    A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by FDA (Food and Drug Administration).

  • Stem Cells

    Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. An undifferentiated cell of a multi-cellular organism that is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type, and from which certain other kinds of cell arise by differentiation.

  • MIPPA

    MIPPA (Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act) provides incentives for practitioners who use electronic health records.

  • FDA

    The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24.