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500
Blood letting
If a person had a mild headache or sore throat, it was normal for a physician to open a vein and let the blood flow. -
659
Dental Amalgams
Creation of amalgams for dental procedures. A text from the year 659 shows the first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin. -
910
Rhazes
Suggests that blood is the cause of multiple diseases. -
1200
Beginning of medical care regulation
Physicians were licensed after formal training with experienced doctors. Physicians and surgeons received different training. -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1305
eyeglasses
By the end of the 13th century, eyeglasses were well known in Italy and worn by people who had bad vision. -
1315
Anathomia corporis humani
In the year 1315 the Italian physician Mondino de Luzzi even conducted a public dissection for his students and spectators. -
1348
Black Death
Massive disease that wiped out England's population. Rats carried the disease. Most remedies did not work and there were multiple different ones. -
1349
Charles de Lorme
invented and designed the bird like mask worn by doctors during the Black Plague. The beak shaped mask was filled with medicinal herbs that were supposed to prevent the disease, however they did not work. -
1350
Theodoric Borgognoni
Founded the antiseptic method-where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. He had bandages that were pre-soaked in wine as a form of disinfectant. -
1472
Trepanning
Surgical procedure that is supposed to help with depression, epilepsy, and migraines. -
Hieronymus Fabricius
anatomist and surgeon that prepared a human and animal anatomy atlas. This work includes illustrations from many different artists and he is credited for providing a turning point in anatomical illustration. -
Peter Chamberlen
invented the obstetrical forceps, used to free a baby from the womb during a difficult birth without hurting or killing baby or mother. -
William Harvey
was the first person to properly describe the systematic circulation and properties of blood and how the heart pumps around the body. -
Book written by woman
The first English handbook by a woman was The Midwives Book by Mrs Jane Sharp in 1671. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Anthony Jenner
Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule into the arm of James Phipps, an 8-year old boy. He then proved that Phipps was immune to smallpox because of the cowpox vaccine -
Sir Humphry Davy
anesthetic properties of nitro-us oxide -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope. -
Typhoid outbreaks
Typhoid is a disease that inflames the intestines. It is spread through contact with the infection, so can be carried in water, or passed on through contact with an infected person. -
Child labor
Children had to work all of the time and would often get injured because of the dangerous machinery that they worked. -
telegraph communications
the telegraph was invented to get information from one place to another, This can help in the medical field to get certain information to others. -
Period: to
Modern World
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AIDS disease
the AIDS disease began to rapidly grow again in the 90's. -
Call for healthcare reforms
more than three dozen health-care reform bills were introduced in the U.S. Congress. None of them passed. The following year, President George H. W. Bush presented a health-care reform plan that promised to provide coverage for the more than thirty-five million Americans without health insurance and to stop the spiraling costs for the Medicare system. -
smart pill
This is used in gastrointesinal diagnostic procedures. it has a camera om it so you can see the inside. -
Heart disease drop by 40%
a heart attack is all about speed: speed the patient to the hospital so that a clot that blocks the life-saving flow of blood can be "busted" with drugs like the genetically engineered tissue plasminogen activator or tPA. -
Human Genome
scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public. For the first time the world could read the complete set of human genetic information and begin to discover what our roughly 23,000 genes do. -
Period: to
21st Century
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smoke free laws
in 2003 there were only 75 cities in the US that prohibited smoking in workplaces, bars, and restaurants. -
face transplants
transfer someone's face to another person's face if they were in an accident or some other event. -
HPV vaccine
this vaccine prevents against the 4 strains of hpv that can trigger cervical cancer. -
synthetic cells
the first completely new synthetic cells were created by stitching together chemicals to synthesise the full genome of a bacterium. This could open the way to new treatments in synthetic biology that could have applications in a range of industries, from biofuels to healthcare. -
seizure stoppers
in 2013, a company called NeuroPace revolutionised epilepsy therapy by developing the RNS System; the world’s first closed loop, brain-responsive neuromodulation system.
