Medical Investigations 1

By jjnowak_14
  • Period: 500 to

    Medical History

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 8, 1347

    Black Death

    This illness was spread by rats and further medical research shows that the bubonic plague could have been prevented by soap and water.
  • Sep 8, 1400

    Medical Books

    Red Book of Hergest, was the most popular book that consisted of medical remmodies that used herbs from gardens. These herbal cures were used by doctors back then and were the end of the time of folk medicine. These books were usually developed in monastaries.
  • Sep 8, 1400

    Dissection of the human body

    Criminals and sinners were punished by being the experiment of human dissections.
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    Sep 8, 1452

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci studied the body and stressed the fact that most of the information would be recovered by observing the body. He created atomical drawings of the body and sat in on many autopsies.

  • Use of scientific method begins

  • Robert Hooke - Reflective Microscope

    Robert Hooke - Reflective Microscope

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas

  • Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination

    Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination

  • Louis Pasteur (microbiology) - pasteruization of milk

    Louis Pasteur (microbiology) - pasteruization of milk

  • Joseph Lister - practice of medical asepsis

    Joseph Lister - practice of medical asepsis

  • The discovery of importance of hand washing

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Bubonic plague hits San Fransisco

  • Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, raduim for cancer treatment, MRI, and CAT scans

    Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, raduim for cancer treatment, MRI, and CAT scans

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • First HMO insurance

  • Salk discovers polio vaccine

  • Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment

    Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment

  • Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles

  • Small Pox

    Small Pox

    The discovery and distinction of the small pox virus is very important in history because that was a very dangerous illness in the Middle ages. Being able to know what it is helps the diagnosis and prognosis of such illness. This also leads to a cure for this illness.