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200
Galen: Tracheotomy
He described how to cure breathing difficulties by a surgical opening of the trachea, or wind pipe. -
Period: 200 to
history of medicine
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500
Veins and Arteries
The difference between veins and arteries is made, this is important because these two things though similar do very different things. With the discovery of these comes much more research and understanding of the body. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 10, 1000
Avicenna
the scientist Avicenna (or Ibn Sina; 980-1037), produced a philosophical-scientific encyclopedia -
Sep 8, 1300
Islamic hospitals
Health care for the sick -
Sep 8, 1400
Woman attempts to practice medicine
Frenchwoman, Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine (without a license) but is denied. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Sep 12, 1505
Da Vinci's Drawings
Leonardo Da Vinci made many drawings and notes of the human anatomy and contributed greatly to our understanding of the human body. -
Sep 12, 1543
Vesalius book
He was the first to fully explain human anatomy and he published his findings in a book. -
Sep 12, 1546
Fracastoro
First to claim each disease had its own germs. Also introduced idea of diseases spreading through air or skin contact -
Sep 12, 1570
Pare
Ambroise Pare was the first to introduce the idea of tying off arteries before amputation. He also created artificial hands with moving fingers. -
Use of scientific method begins
a method or procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. This begins to be used. (wikipedia) -
Robert Hooke- Reflective microscope
The development of the reflecting microscope, first made by robert hooke, helped medical research. -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Previously, the existence of single-celled organisms was entirely unknown, until Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria and described them. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon discovery
Francis Bacon used a microscope to discover plague fleas. -
Edward Jenner Discovery
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.[1][2] He is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human". (wikipedia) -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. (wikipedia) -
John Snow
He was a leader in the adoption of anaesthaesia and medical hygiene. He traced the source of cholera, stopping an outbreak in Soho, London. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases, and his discoveries have saved countless lives ever since. He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. -
Robert Koch
He is known for his role in identifying the specific causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax and for giving experimental support for the concept of infectious disease. (wikipedia) -
Joseph Lister
By applying Louis Pasteur's advances in microbiology, he promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Lister successfully introduced carbolic acid (now known as phenol) to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds, which led to a reduction in post-operative infections and made surgery safer for patients. (wikipedia) -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. -
Bubonic plague hits
Bubonic Plague struck the city of San Francisco twice, causing notice of ways it spread -
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Modern World
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Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. -
Artificial Pacemaker
Albert Hyman created ths first artificial pacemaker, helping regulate the beat of ones heart. -
Jonas Salk
Salk discovered the first polio vaccine. it consists of an injected dose of inactivated (dead) poliovirus. (wikipedia) -
WHO declares smallpox eradicated
After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in 1979. Smallpox is one of two infectious diseases to have been eradicated. (wikipedia) -
AZT is used
Zidovudine (INN) or azidothymidine (AZT) (also called ZDV) is a nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI), a type of antiretroviral drug used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS infection. AZT inhibits the enzyme (reverse transcriptase) that HIV uses to synthesize DNA, thus preventing viral DNA from forming. (wikipedia) -
Steve Thomas
Steve Thomas was the first to use sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment. -
First artificial heart used
The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24. Patient died on August 23. -
Rhazes discovery
Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. This played a role in the development of medicine as a science. -
Medical School
In 900, the first medical school was started in salerno, Italy
