History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discovered difference between smallpox and measles
  • 1100

    Medical care

    Medical care becomes regulated
  • 1200

    Christian Monasteries

    They are founded to treat the ill
  • 1250

    Jacoba Felicie

    Frenchwoman tries to practice medicine but is denied
  • 1300

    Islamic Hospitals

    Islamic Hospitals
    They began to provide care for the sick
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    The Renaissance

  • Scientific Method

    Using the scientific method beings
  • Human Atomical

    there are now studies allowed
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Reflective Microscope
  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

    Describes bacteria
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    used microscope to discover plague flea
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Discovers the first vaccine.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    practice of medical aspesis
  • Robert Koch

    discovering of pathogens
  • John Snow

    stops outbreak of cholera
  • Marine Cario

    discovers science of radio activity
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming
    discovers penicilin
  • HMO

    First hmo insurance
  • Salk

    discovers polio vaccine
  • AZT

    AZT
    used to combat aids
  • WHO

    declares smallpox eradicated
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas
    used sterile maggots for infectious wounds
  • Gardasil Vaccine

    approved by the FDA to help prevent cervical cancer
  • MIPPA

    MIPPA
    provides incentives for practitioners who use electronic health
  • FDA Approved

    implanted artifical heart is placed in patient on June 24th. Patient died on August 23rd.
  • Human Skin Cells

    are discovered how to make embryonic stem cells