Medical History

By Fair6
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle ages

  • 600

    Sushruta Samhita

    Was the first ever known person to do surgery on someone
  • 1242

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  • 1250

    Treatment

    They would pray to help them, they would also change their diet, also use herbs, none of them would help
  • 1252

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  • 1257

    eyeglasses

    helped people see better
  • 1275

    holes in your head

    surgeons might have chosen to bare holes in your head
  • 1289

    Doctors

    doctors used to carry urine jars to help aid diagnosis
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1347

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  • 1350

    life span

    People only lived from ages 30-35 and most 1-5 kids died at birth
  • 1482

    Leonardo da vinci

    Believe that sight was through the eye and by sending nerve pulses through the optic nerve
  • 1527

    Paracelsus

    Paracelsus rethink on how we approached medicine and cures become known as the doctor with "healing" proprieties when he healed a patient with an infection without amputation
  • 1533

    Ambroise Paré

    was a surgeon who healed burns and wold apply egg yolk and oil of roses
  • Disccession of bodys

    Andreas Vesalius and Leonardo Da Vinci dissected human bodies, and created detailed drawings showing the body
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  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • James Lind

    He figured out that vitamin deficiency was the cause of scurvy
  • William Withering

    Spent 10 years learning how a man drank herbs to heal himself and he figured out that it strengths the heart muscle
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  • public health act

    Mostly from Chadwick's work that added sanitation to smaller towns but was limited
  • Nightingale’s school of nursing

    Was published in England by the times which used her methods including cleanliness and compassion
  • second reform act

    Increased the pressure on Parliament giving giving working men improved conditions for ordinary people
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  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Was the first to introduces the world of blood types
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  • Diabetes

    Insulin was used for the first time to treat diabetes
  • diphtheria

    First vaccine used to help solve diphtheria
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Was the first man ever to discover penicillin
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  • Paul Zoll

    Was the first man to create the first cardiac pacemaker
  • Human Genome

    Begin to discover what 23,000 genes
  • robotic surgery

    Robots used tiny hands to take out organs that in the past would leave a 10 inch scar now it is reduced to little or no scar
  • Period: to

    21st Century

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  • Health care

    It has become more accessible to people
  • Cancer

    first vaccine to target cancer
  • Health care

    it has been more focused to help the patients