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Period: 500 to
Medical History
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 1000
Medical care becomes regulated
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1346
Bubonic Plague
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Jan 1, 1350
Christian monastaries founded to treat the ill
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Use of scientific method begins
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Human anatomical studies allowed
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Robert Hooke- reflective microscope
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Antonie can Leeuwenhoek decribes bacteria
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethascope
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis
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Robert Koch- discoveres pathogens
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
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Ebola
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Aids
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
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Rhazes discovered difference between small po and measles