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900 BCE
Dr. Rhazes Discovery
He purposed and developed methods for diagnosis and treatment of kidney calculi for the first time in medical history. -
460 BCE
Hippocrates
Hippocrates bases medicine on objective observation and deductive reasoning, although he does accept the commonly held belief that disease results from an imbalance of the four bodily humors. -
130 BCE
Galen
Galen resides primarily in Rome where he is physician to the gladiators and personal physician to several emperors. He publishes some 500 treatises and is still respected for his contributions to anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology. -
400
Hospitals
By the fourth century the concept of a hospital – a place where patients could be treated by doctors with access to specialized equipment – was emerging in parts of the Roman Empire -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 1300
Medicine vs Religion
Christian and Muslims religious instructions were based off of the Qur'an. Which taught followers social responsibilities like rich providing the poor, and the healthy providing for weak or sick. This led to the founding of Islamic Hospitalization. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1430
Small Pox Vaccine
If you recovered from small pox you were thought to be immune to it. Jenner decided to use pus from Cowpox blisters on the small pox. People didn't believe such could work but it did. -
Jan 1, 1478
Girolamo Fracastoro
He is best-known for “Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus” (1530; “Syphilis or the French Disease”), a work in rhyme giving an account of the disease, which he named. -
Jan 1, 1492
Black Death's Reappearance
Black Death which was a VERY deadly disease had came back to "life" around the time of the Renaissance time period. The island of Hispaniola had a population of 600,000 and it dropped to nearly 600. -
Jan 1, 1514
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica. -
The Microscope
Anton van Leeuwenhoek refines the microscope and fashions nearly 500 models. Discovers blood cells and observes animal and plant tissues and microorganisms -
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Industrial Revolution
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Sir Christopher Wren
English architect Sir Christopher Wren is the first to administer medications intravenously by means of an animal bladder attached to a sharpened quill -
William Harvey's Study
William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals, describing how blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart -
Colera
Colera was also a very deadly disease, compared to black death. It caused very many deaths in short amounts of time. Then Louis Pasteures germ theory of the Colera germ would change this for many many years. -
Wilhelm Conrad
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays -
Anesthetics
Willows tree bark was used to take pain away for long periods of time. After awhile 2 men got together and used skill and knowledge to make the pain reliever "Aspirin". -
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Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Austrian-American Karl Landsteiner describes blood compatibility and rejection developing the ABO system of blood typing. -
Blood Transfusion
First successful human blood transfusion using Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique -
Tuberculosis Vaccine
First vaccine for tuberculosis. Which is is a disease caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB mainly infects the lungs, although it can also affect other organs. -
Humane Genome Project
This Project was mainly about connecting genes to people and how they are formed. From data collected its hoped that new treatments for disease will be developed -
Gamow Hyperbaric Bag
The Gamow Bag is a portable hyperbaric chamber used for the treatment of acute mountain sickness (AMS). By increasing air pressure around the patient, the Gamow Bag simulates descent of as much as 7,000 feet, thus relieving AMS symptoms. -
Human Genome is Finally Announced
First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three years later. -
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21st Century
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Embryonic Cells
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
FDA Approval
The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California. -
Mammoth DNA
In March, DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome. -
Walter Reed
A purified inactivated vaccine for Zika is currently under development by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. This vaccine is based on the same technology used to develop a vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis Virus.
