medical investigations

By emmaA1234567
  • 130

    birth of galen

    the birth of galen was an important event because galen was an important guy in medical history as you will see in the other event. he was a greek physicain
  • 200

    Galen tracheotomy

    sucsessfully practiced tracheomtomy on a goat justifying galens approval on the opperation.
    Galen was a greek doctor.
    Tracheotomy is an incision in the windpipe made to relive an obstruction breathing.
  • Period: 200 to

    medical history

  • 400

    hippocratic oath

    this is one of the oldest binging documents in history. it means to treat the ill with best of ones ability.
  • 500

    veins and arteries

    the differince between veins and arteries is identified. arteries are much bigger thsn veins and veins carry deoxegenated blood back to the heart and arteries carry oxeenated blood away from the heart to the body
  • Period: 500 to Sep 9, 1500

    midlle ages

  • Sep 11, 1000

    surgery is considerd a profession

    now people who preform surgeries can be paid. it also allows mor learning about the body through surgery.
  • Sep 9, 1300

    islamic hospitals; health care for the sick

    islamic hopital was called an bimaristan. hospital served as a center of medical treatment, a convalesent home for those recovering from an illness or accidents, and insane isylem, and a retiermnet home giving basic matnience needs for the aged and infirm who lacked a family to take care of them. the earlies hospital recoreded was in bagdad established by an islamic ruler.
  • Sep 11, 1347

    black death

    was the larges pleage wipping out over half the population. this iness was spread by rats.
  • Period: Sep 9, 1400 to

    renissance

  • Sep 11, 1452

    leanardo davinci

    he studied the body and made setches of the body to stressed the fact the most important part is studying the body
  • Sep 9, 1540

    barber-surgeon

    the barber surgeon not only cut hair but performed sugrey. the sign for a barber was a post with red an whit stripes on it with some blue. the theory was the blue stood for the vein the red for blood, and the white for the bandages.

  • microscope is invented

    zacharius jannessen invented the microscope witch is an optical instrument used to increase the apperent size of an object. they discoverd this by messing with lenses and by puttin multiple at the end it enlarged the object.

  • use of scientific method begins.

    greeks were first to develope the scientific method. this includes, hypothesis, research, tesing, conclusion
  • Period: to

    industrial revolution

  • stephescope is invented

    Rene laennec ivented this. this invention can be used t listen to heart beats and breathing

  • first woman recieves medical degree

    Elizibeth Blackwell was the first woman to recieve a medical degree. she recived her degree from Geneava Medical school in New York. in 1857 she opped her own hospital. even for the first woman to recive medical degrees she was very sucsessfull\

  • first vaccine for cholera

    cholera was an infection in the small intestion that causes a large amount of watery diarrea.filippo pacini was an italian scientist who discoverd it

  • vaccine for anthrax

  • vacine for rabbbies

    Rabies is a deadley virus that atttacks the central nervous system.
    louis pasture and Emilie Roux invented the first vaccine for rabbies in 1885.

  • x-ray

    german physicist Wihelm rontgen acciedntally discoverd the xray. the x-ray is a highly entergetic electromagnetic radiation capable of penitrating most solid objects.
  • Period: to

    modern world

  • salk discovers polio vaccine

    this desiease attacks the central nervous system.salk used formaldehyde, he killed the virus but kept it intact enough to trigger the bodys response. they used the vaccine on children who already had polio and the survived. then he did it for vollenteers and they didnt get sick. there antibodies increaced wich fought of the virus.

  • first kidney transplant

    joshef E. murray and john hartwell harrison were the sugergons to do the first kidney transplant. it was preformed at the peter bent brigham hospital in boston.

  • first heart transplant

    dr. christian bernard does the first heart transplant in groote shuur in cape town, africa.

  • smallpox is identified

    persian physcian Rhazes identified small pox. he finllayed identfied there difference from measles.