Medical History

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  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle Ages 400-1400 AD

    The study of Medical science stopped for over 1000 years.
    Medicine practices only in monasteries/convents
    used herbal medicine
    there were many plagues and epidemics.
    bubonic plague, small pox, diptheria. syphyllis, tuberculosis.
  • Jan 1, 1200

    1200's hygiene

    First strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted.
  • Jan 1, 1300

    1300's corpse

    First dissection of human corpse.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    1400's midwives

    First recorded regualtions for midwives
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance 1400-1650 AD

    Rebirth of science- stimulated medical practice just as it did all other European intellectual pursuitrs. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine.
    -MEdical schools were built
    -the printing press made books possible and knowledge was shared.
    -it is hard to believe its impact but the printing press was the information superhighway of its day.
    -accepted the study of the body by dissection
  • Jan 1, 1440

    1440 printing press

    1440 printing press
    the printing press was created by Johanns Gutenberg, made books..
  • Jan 1, 1500

    1500's human anatomy

    First scientific study of human anatomy published.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    1500-1600 AD Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century

    Andres Versallus 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.
    -Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope

  • 1600's 2 events.

    Blood circulation first discovered. Bacteria discovered.

  • 1620 Submarine

    First human powered submarine invented by Cornellus Drebbel

  • 1628 circulation of blood

    William Harvey described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

  • 1700's

    First law requiring licensed medical practitioners.
    Obstetrics established as a seperate branch of medicine.
  • Period: to

    1700- early 1800's Eighteenth Century

    Rene Leannec invented the stethoscope.
    -Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person.
    -Edward Jenner: vaccination for smallpox(related to cowpox)

  • 1709 piano

    1709 piano
    Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano

  • 1714 thermom.

    Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer

  • 1722 fire extinguisher

    1722 fire extinguisher
    French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher

  • 1764 spinning jenny

    James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny

  • 1769 Steam Engine

    1769 Steam Engine
    James watt invents an improved steam engine

  • 1776 USA

    America was founded!

  • 1796 smallpox

    Vaccination against smallpox developed.

  • 1796 small pox

    Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox

  • Late 19th century

    Late 19th century gunpowder was invented
  • Period: to

    1800-1900 Nineteenth and twentieth centuries

    Joseph Lister- the first doctor to use an sntiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision.
    -ignas semmelweiss- identified the cause of material infections and instituted hand washing. medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing thier hands, causing the death of many newborn babies and mothers.*he died during an auopsy.
    -Louis Pasteur- Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevents bac.

  • 1822-1884 heredity

    Gregor mendel established the patterns of heredity

  • 1842 ether

    First practical anesthetic, ether, introduced.

  • 1849 elizabeth blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell- in 1849 she became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to purse nursing.

  • 1860 nursing

    Florence Nightengale was the founder of modern nursing (1820-1910)
  • Period: to

    1861-1865 Civil war

    Civil war

  • 1862 pasturization

    Louis Pasteur began pasturizing milk to kill bacteria

  • 1879 tools

    Diagnostic tools, such as microscope, thermometer and x-rays, invented.

  • 1879 germ therory

    Germ theory introduced.

  • 1881 ARC

    1881 ARC
    Clara Barton discovered the American Red Cross

  • 1885 rabies

    Rabies vaccine discovered.

  • 1895 x-rays

    1895 x-rays
    William Roentgen discovered x-rays

  • 1900's blood types

    Major blood types (O,A,B, and AB) identified.

  • 1910 radium

    Marie Curie Isolated radium

  • 1918 INFLUENZA

    Influenza mobilized the war, caused many deaths and outbreaks in the US.

  • 1928 penicillin

    First antibiotic drug, penicillin, discovered

  • 1928 penicillin

    Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin

  • 1950's polio

    1950's polio
    First polio vaccine

  • 1952 polio

    Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine.

  • 1960's the pill

    1960's the pill
    Birth control pill introduced.

  • 1967 heart

    1967 heart
    First successful heart transplant

  • 1967 heart surgery

    Christian Barnard: in 1967 performed the worlds first heart transplant surgery.

  • 1978 test tube baby

    First test tube baby born

  • 1981 aids

    AIDS first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ( the first AIDS-like cases were identified more than a centry earlier, in 1872)

  • 1997 clone sheep

    Scientists clone sheep

  • 9/11

    9/11, when the world stopped. the twin towers were under terror attack. and fell to the ground, taking lives of MANY americans