Medical History

By faith_
  • 500

    Beliefs

    People started believing that illnesses are caused by spiritual or superstitious causes.
  • 500

    Rhaze

    Helped development of medicines connection with science with the idea of Hippocrates.
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    middle ages

  • 700

    Amputation

    Barbers started burning the sumps from amputation to stop excess bleeding.
  • 754

    Pharmacies

    Pharmacies
    The first pharmacy was made in Baghdad.
  • 1000

    Bloodletting

    Bloodletting
    Barbers would take out certain amounts of blood to cure illnesses. Most of the time it made their condition worse making them die of blood loss.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1350

    Dissection

    The church had a ban on dissection because they believed that humans should be buried whole. When it was finally allowed people found out a lot about human anatomy.
  • 1524

    hospital

    hospital
    First Voluntary hospital built in New Mexico still stands today in the same place.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    One of he first doctors to know how human circulatory system works correctly and how the heart circulates blood. lived from 1578-1657
  • Obstetrical forceps

    A tool used to help difficult births without killing or hurting the baby. While not killing the mother either
  • The Midwives Book

    The first English mid wife written by a woman named Jane sharp. Important for women advancement in the medical field
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Stethoscope

    A device that is used to listen to your heart invented by Rene Leannec.
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    The first ever woman to get her medical degree in the US.
  • Sphygmomanometer

    Sphygmomanometer
    This is a little machine used to measure your blood pressure it was invented by Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch.
  • Rabies

    Rabies vaccination is a shot that prevents rabies it was invented by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux.
  • Felix Hoffmann

    Felix Hoffmann
    He invents aspirin one of the most used medicine in the world distributed from Bayer.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    He Described the difference between blood types and ow some are not compatible
  • Insulin

    Insulin was first used to treat diabetes by Frederick Grant Banting.
  • Blood bank

    Blood bank
    the first eve blood bank was open by Bernard Fantus.
  • Flu shot

    The first flu shot was invented by Jonas Salk to prevent the flu.
  • Heart transplant

    First successful heart transplant preformed in south Africa by Christiaan Barnard.
  • Stem Cell

    Stem Cell
    Stem cell research becomes more known
  • Period: to

    21st Century