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Hippocrates 400B.C.E
Hippocrates is the Father of Medicine and wrote a code of ethics for physicians called the Hippocratic Oath. It was a hugely influential doctor at this time with many followers. A number of medical books were written around his work. -
Jan 1, 1200
1200's Hygiene
During this time period first strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted -
Jan 1, 1300
1300's Dissection
During the 1300's was the first dissection of human corpse -
Jan 1, 1400
1400's Mid-Wives
First recorded regulations for mid-wives -
Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages 400-1400 AD or CE
- The study of medical science stopped for over 1,000 years.
- Medicine practiced only in monasteries and convents.
- Used herbal medicine
- There were many plagues and epidemics - bubonic plauge, small pox, diphtheria, syphilis, tuberculosis
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Jan 1, 1440
Printing Press
Holy Roman Empire German Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. -
Jan 1, 1510
Leonardo da Vinci
in 1510Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw th human body and published a book in 1543 about the drawings of human anatomy. -
Period: Jan 1, 1578 to
Human Anatomy
William Harvey described the circulation of blood to and from the heart in 1628. -
1600's Bacteria
Blood circulation first described and Bacteria was discovered -
1600's Microscope
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. -
Submarine
The earliest human-powered submarine was invented by Cornelis Drebbel. -
Circulation of blood
In 1628 William Harvey published An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which described the circulation of blood to and from the heart. -
1700's Medicine
First law requiring licensed medical practitioners. Obstetrics established as a separate brach of medicine. -
Benjamin Franklin 1700's
Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person. -
The Piano
Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano. (could lead to arthritis) -
Mercury Thermometer
Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer. -
Fire Extinguisher
French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny. -
Steam Engine
James Watt invented an improved steam engine. -
America
The founding of America -
1796 Smallpox
Edward Jenner developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1796 -
19th Century (1800's) Florence Nightengale
Florence Nightengale was the founder of modern nursing. She started the first school of nursing during the Crimean War and made nursing an honorable profession. -
Late 19th Century Gun Powder
Gun powder was made -
Rene Laennec
Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope. -
Anesthetic
Dr. William Morton, American dentist, bagan using ether as an anesthetic in 1846 he introduced the first practical anesthetic -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing. -
Dorthea Dix
Dorthea Dix was a nurse of the battlefield. She made schools for girls and mental institutions -
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Civil War
The Civil War took place in the United States of America. It was a four year war on slavery. -
Pasteurizing Milk
Louis Pasteur began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria -
Tools Invented
Diagnostic tools, such as microscope, thermometer and x-rays, invented Germ theory introduced in 1879 -
American Red Cross
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. She was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens -
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Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery. -
Rabies
Louis Pasteur contributed many discoveries to the practice of medicine including rabies vaccine in 1885 -
X-Ray
William Roentgen discovered the x-ray in 1895 -
1900's Blood Types
Major blood types (O, A, B, and AB) identified -
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ignas Semmelweiss
Ignas Semmelweiss identified the cause of maternal infections and instituted hand washing. Medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, causing the death of many newborn babies and mothers. -
Radium
Marie Curie isolated (in it's metallic state) radium in 1910. Radiation killed her -
Penicillin
The first antibiotic drug, penicillin was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming -
George Mendel, 20th century
George Mendel established the patterns of heredity. He demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns. His discovery was recgonized until the 20th century -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine using dead polio virus in 1952 -
Heart Transplant
First successful heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard on a man called Louis Washkansky -
Test-Tube Baby
Louise Brown, the world's first "test-tube" baby, was born in England on July 25th. British gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe took an egg from her mother. His colleague Robert Edwards added sperm from her father. The doctors placed the fertilized egg in her mother's womb, where it grew into a healthy baby. -
AIDS
AIDS first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1981) (The first AIDS-like cases were identified more than a century earlier, in 1872) -
Cloning
Scientists clone sheep -
911
There was a terrorisim attack on the twin towers in New York City.
