Medical Investigations

By Tatummm_11
  • 200

    Galen

    First Tracheotomy by Galen
  • 200

    Barber

    Barber-surgeons cut hair, perform surgery; barber pole symbol popularized
  • Period: 200 to

    History of the Medical Field

  • Period: 500 to Sep 10, 1500

    Middle ages

  • Abulcasis
    Sep 10, 1000

    Abulcasis

    Abulcasis establishes surgery as a profession.
  • Alhazen
    Sep 10, 1021

    Alhazen

    Alhazen wrote the Book of Optics. This book advances the field opthalmology and eye surgery.
  • Sep 10, 1100

    Avenzoar

    Avenzoar performs human dissections and autopsy. Also performs a tracheotomy and identifies scabies as a parasite.
  • Roger Frugardi
    Sep 10, 1180

    Roger Frugardi

    Roger Frugardi composes his Treatise on Surgery. This changes surgery as a craft and raises its status.
  • Sep 5, 1300

    Islamic Hospital

    Islamic hostpitals, health care for the sick
  • Sep 10, 1300

    Arnald of Vilanova

    Arnald of Vilanova advises that pain is relevant in diagnoses. For most medical doctors, the main reason to study pain was to develop a tool for a better diagnosis.
  • Sep 5, 1302

    Christian monasteries

    Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
  • Sep 5, 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
  • Sep 8, 1493

    Paracelsus

    Paracelsus started on the relationship between medicine and surgery. Surgery Book
  • Sep 5, 1500

    Anatomy

    Human anatomical studies allowed
  • Period: Sep 10, 1500 to

    Renaisance

  • Stopping bleeding

    Stopping bleeding

    Silk threads would be used to tie up the arteries of amputated limbs to try and stop the bleeding.

  • Scientific Method

    Use of the scientific method begins
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart

  • Printing Press

    Printing press allows for publication of discoveries.

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke- reflective microscope

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria.

  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Discovery

    Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope.

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination.

  • Louis Pastuer

    Louis Pastuer (microbiology) pasteurization of milk (1822-1895)

  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister- practice of medical aspesis. (1827-1912)

  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens. (1843-1910)

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing.

  • John Snow

    John Snow stops outbreak of cholera.

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity. (1897-1904)

  • Bubonic

    Bubonic plague hits San Francisco. (1900-1909)

  • Discovery

    Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, Cat scans.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. (1928-1945)

  • HMO

    First HMO insurance. (1930-1960)
  • Percy Lavon Julian

    Percy Lavon Julian

    Percy Lavon Julian synthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Salk

    Salk discovers polio vaccine.

  • WHO

    WHO declares smallpox eradicated.

  • Health Care

    Managed health care; growth in uninsured. (1980-1998)

  • AZT

    AZT is used to combat AIDS. (1981-1986)

  • Rhazes

    Rhazes discovered difference between smallpoz and measlses

  • Medical care

    Medical care becomes regulated

  • Diseases

    Seperates smallpox from measles and suggests that blood causes infectious diseaes