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500
Hippocrates
Hippocrates becomes the founder of Western medicine. Also when people join the medical field now they have to say the Hippocratic Oath. -
500
The Dark Ages
The Middle age is also known as the dark age, and it was a time when health problems were considered to have spiritual causes and solutions. -
Period: 500 to
The History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 620
Aaron of Alexandria Syriac
Aaron of Alexandria Syriac, wrote 30 books on medicine, the "Pandects". He was also the first author in antiquity who mentioned the diseases of small pox and measles. -
Jan 1, 1095
St. Anthony's Fire
Congregation of the Antonines, was founded to treat victims of "St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease. -
Jan 1, 1242
Ibn an-Nafis
Ibn an-Nafis suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation. -
Jan 1, 1300
Islamic Hospitals
Made health care avaliable for the sick. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
The Renaissance
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Jan 26, 1347
The Black Plauge or The Black Death
The Black Plauge or Black Death was also know as the bubonic plauge and there were many new public health initiatives developed during this time to help stop the spread of the disease. -
Jan 1, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
Frech woman, Jacoba Felicie, tries to practice medicine but is denied. -
Jan 1, 1410
Mentally Ill
An institution for the mentally ill is established in Valencia, Spain. -
Jan 1, 1504
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci produces wax cast of human ventricles. -
Felix Platter
Felix Platter states that the lens of the eye only focuses light and the retina is where images are formed. -
Scientific Method
The scientific method was now being put into play and the world began to go a more scientific route in health care. -
Rebirth of Thinking
At this point in time people began to see that saints as well as sinners got sick and began observations to find more accurate causes of diseases and other sicknesses. -
Thomas Willis
Thomas Willis describes the eleventh cranial nerve (accessory nerve) and suggests that cerebrospinal fluid is produced by the choroid plexus. -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to discover bacteria and other microscopic organisms using a rudimentary microscope. -
Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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Jacques Daviel
Jacques Daviel performs the first cataract extraction on a living human eye -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner discovers the first vaccination to help increase people's defenses against sicknesses. -
Marine Hospital
The Marine Hospital Service was established on July 16 as an act for the relief for sick and disabled seamen. -
Hand Washing
Igaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing to reduce the spread of germs. -
John Snow
John Snow is able to stop an outbreak of Cholera. -
National Board of Health
The National Board of Health was created by law and it represented the first organized, comprehensive, national medical research effort of the Federal Government. -
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The Modern Times
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Salvarsan
A drug used to cure syphilis is discovered. -
Jonas Salk
Salk discovers the vaccine to the polio disease that had burdened many people. -
Uninsured
Managed health care has begun and there is a growth in the uninsured. This continued until 1998. -
Steve Thomas
Thomas uses sterile maggots for the first time to treat and infectious wound. -
Skin Cells
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cell. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner discovers the first vaccination to help increase people's defenses against sicknesses. -
Rhazes
Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
Benedictine Hospital
Benedictine hospital was founded, and the School of Salerno would soon grow around it.
