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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.
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During this time period first strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted
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During the 1300's was the first dissection of human corpse
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First recorded regulations for mid-wives
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- 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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Holy Roman Empire German Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press.
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in 1510Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw th human body and published a book in 1543 about the drawings of human anatomy.
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William Harvey described the circulation of blood to and from the heart in 1628.
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Blood circulation first described and Bacteria was discovered
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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope.
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The earliest human-powered submarine was invented by Cornelis Drebbel.
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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.
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First law requiring licensed medical practitioners. Obstetrics established as a separate brach of medicine.
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Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person.
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Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano. (could lead to arthritis)
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Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer.
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French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher
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James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
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James Watt invented an improved steam engine.
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The founding of America
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Edward Jenner developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1796
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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.
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Gun powder was made
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope.
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Dr. William Morton, American dentist, bagan using ether as an anesthetic in 1846 he introduced the first practical anesthetic
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.
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Dorthea Dix was a nurse of the battlefield. She made schools for girls and mental institutions
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The Civil War took place in the United States of America. It was a four year war on slavery.
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Louis Pasteur began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria
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Diagnostic tools, such as microscope, thermometer and x-rays, invented Germ theory introduced in 1879
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. She was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"
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Robert Koch developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens
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Joseph Lister began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery.
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Louis Pasteur contributed many discoveries to the practice of medicine including rabies vaccine in 1885
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William Roentgen discovered the x-ray in 1895
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Major blood types (O, A, B, and AB) identified
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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.
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Marie Curie isolated (in it's metallic state) radium in 1910. Radiation killed her
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The first antibiotic drug, penicillin was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming
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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
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine using dead polio virus in 1952
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First successful heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard on a man called Louis Washkansky
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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.
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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)
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Scientists clone sheep
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There was a terrorisim attack on the twin towers in New York City.
