Medical History

By kirsten96
  • 100

    Egyptians

    Egyptians
    3500-500 B.C.E
    Used medicines to heal disease
  • Period: 100 to

    Medical History

  • 400

    Medicine Practice

    Medicine was practiced only in monasteries and convents.
  • Oct 11, 600

    Study

    The study of medical science stopped for over 1,000 years
  • Oct 10, 1000

    First school

    First school
    The first school of medicine was established in Salerno, Italy
  • Oct 11, 1200

    Hygiene

    First strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted.
  • Oct 11, 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
  • Oct 11, 1400

    Midwives

    First recored regulations for midwives
  • Oct 10, 1500

    Anatomy

    The first scientific study of human anatomy was published in 1500

  • Accepted the study of the body by dissection

    The church did not permit the dissection of 'God fearing bodies' so it was often the bodies of criminals or 'sinners' that weere used. Doctors learned about anatomy from watching these dissections. Sometimes the criminal was alive at the start of proceedings as part of their punishment.

  • 1st anatomical drawings

    Andreas Vesalius 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.

  • Microscope

    Microscope
    Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope

  • Licensing

    First law requiring licensed medical practitioners.

  • Bifocals

    Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person

  • Smallpox

    Edward Jenner came up with the vaccination for smallpox which is related to cowpox.

  • 1st women doctor

    1st women doctor
    Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing

  • X-Rays

    X-Rays
    William Roentgen discovered X-rays in 1895 which allowed doctors to see inside the body to discover what was wrong with the patient

  • Maternal infections

    Maternal infections
    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. Ignas also died from a cut during an autopsy.

  • Blood

    Major blood types O, A, B and AB were identified.

  • Radium

    Radium was isolated in 1910 by Marie Curie and also André Debierne

  • Penicillin

    Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming, the first antibiotic that was considered one of the most important discoveries in the 20th century

  • Father

    Robert Koch was the "Father of Microbiology" He discovered many disease causing organisms- anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera.

  • 1st Heart Surgery

    1st Heart Surgery
    Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.

  • Rabies

    Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria (pasteurization)(Louis Pasteur)

  • AIDS

    AIDS first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but the first AIDS-like cases were identified more than a century earlier, in 1872