Medical Investigations 1 Timeline

By lilliancollett
  • Period: 500 to

    Medical History

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Jan 1, 1300

    Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    The Renasissance

  • Jan 1, 1400

    Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied

  • Period: Jan 31, 1501 to

    Modern Times

  • Use of scientific method begins

  • Robert Hooke-- reflective microscope

  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek decribes bacteria

  • Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner dicovered 1st vacination

  • Louis Pasreur (microbiology)masreuization of milk

  • Joseph Lister--practice of medical asepsis

  • Robert Koch--dicovery of pathogens

  • Louis Pasteur carried out experiments that became the basis for madern microbiology

  • Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing

  • John Snow stops outbreak of cholera

  • Bubonic plague hits San Francisco

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • First HMO Insurance

  • Salk dicovers polio vaccine

  • WHO declares smallpox eradicated

  • Rhazes discovered difference beween small pox and measles