Medical History

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  • Period: 400 to

    Dark Ages

    Study of medicine was prohibited. Focused on saving the soul(prayer and devine intervention). Monks and Priests took care of the ill.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1350 to

    Renaissance

    Rebirth of the science of medicine. Michelangelo and Da Vinci used dissections to draw the human body.
  • Period: to

    16th and 17th Century

    Causes of disease were still not known and many people died from infections and disease

  • William Harvey

    Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.

  • Anton van Leeuenhoek

    Invented the microscope.
  • Period: to

    Benjamin Franklin

    invented bifocal glasses.

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    created the first mercury thermometer

  • John Hunter

    Established scientifcal procedures and introduced the feeding tube.

  • Edward Jenner

    Developed vaccination for smallpox.

  • Royal college of surgeons

    Founded in London.

  • James Blundell

    First succesful blood transfusion on a human.
  • Period: to

    Louis Pastuer

    Proved microrganisms cause disease, pasteurizing milk kills bacteria, and creatind a vaccine for rabies in 1885.
  • Period: to

    Gregor Mendel

    established principles of heredity and donimant/recessive patterns.
  • Period: to

    Robert Koch

    Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and isolate the bacteria causing tuberculosis. "Father of Microbiology"

  • Dr.James Simpson

    First doctor to use chloroform as an anesthetic.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    First female physician in the united states.

  • Florence Nightingale

    Founder of modern nursing. Established efficent and sanitary nursing units during the Crimean war.
  • Period: to

    Sigmund Freud

    formed basis of psychology and psychiatry through his studies.
  • Period: to

    Dorothea Dix

    became superintendant of Female nurses in the army. Founded the International Red Cross.

  • Joseph Lister

    started using antispetics and disinfectants during surgery to prevent infection.

  • clara barton

    Founded the American Red cross.

  • Carl Landsteiner

    Classified ABO blood groups.

  • Marie Curie

    Isolated radium.

  • Sir Alexander Flemming

    discovered Penicillin

  • Jonas Salk

    Developed the polio vaccine.

  • Birth Control

    FDA approves birth control pills.

  • Dolly

    A sheep is cloned
  • Period: to Jan 1, 1400

    Middle Ages

    Renewed interest in medical practices from the Greeks and Romans. Bubonic plague broke out.