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Dark and Middle Ages
Beginning of the Dark and Middle Ages -
Period: 400 to
Medical History
History of Medicine and Medical discoveries. -
Jan 1, 1400
The Renaissance
The Start of the Renaissance -
Jan 1, 1400
Rebirth of Science
The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other european intellectual pursuits. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine. -
Jan 1, 1400
End of Dark and Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 1450
Printing Press
Made books possible and knowledge was shared, was "information superhightway" of its day. -
Jan 1, 1500
Andreas Vesaluis and Leonardo Da Vinci
dissected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings. these helped in understanding the organs and systems of the human body. -
William Harvey
Described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart. -
The Renaissance
The end of the Renaissance -
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Edward Jenner
Vaccination for smallpox (which is related to cowpox) -
Rene Laennec
Invention of the stethoscope -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of maternal infections and institued hand wa shing. Medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, causing the death of many newborn babies and mothers. he died from a cut during an autopsy -
Elizabeth Blackwell
She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing. -
Clara Barton
"Angel of the Battlefield" She established the American Red Cross. -
Joseph Lister
First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision. -
Florence Night
Started the first school of nursing during the Crimean War and made nursing an honorable profession. -
Robert Koch
"Father of Microbiology", he discovered many disease-causing organisms- anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera. -
Louis Pasteur
Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms casued disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria (pasteurization). -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-rays, allowed doctors to see insdie the body to discover what was wrong with the patient. -
Sigmund Freud
Stuied the efffects of the unconscous mind on the body. He determined that the mind and body work together. Hist studies were the basic of psychology and psychiatry. -
Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic. this was considered one of the most important discoveries in the twentieth century. -
Albert Sabin
Creator of the oral polio vaccine, which was more effective than Salk's vaccine. -
Christain Barnard
Performed the world's first heart transplant surgery -
Louise Brown
First Successful "test tube" baby born in Great Britain. -
Tissue cloning
The process of creating an identical copy of an original. Dolly the sheep was cloned. -
Gene Theapy
Insertation of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary disease in particular. -
Advanced Body Imaging
Diagnostic and screening medical procedures specifically developed to promote health and wellness.
