-
Period: 500 to
History of medicine
-
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle ages
-
Sep 11, 1000
Medical care becomes regulated
-
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
-
Sep 11, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
-
Sep 11, 1350
Christian Monasteries founded to treat the ill
-
Sep 11, 1400
Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
-
Sep 11, 1510
Surgery was practiced mostly by barbers
-
Human Anatomical studies allowed
-
Use of scientific method begins
-
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
-
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
-
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
-
Edward Jenner discovered the 1st vaccination
-
Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis
-
John Snow stops the outbreak of cholera
-
Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity
-
Period: to
Modern World
-
Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
-
Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, Cat scans
-
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
-
salk discovers polio vaccine
-
AZT is uded to combat AIDS
-
Steven Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
-
Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox measles