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200
Galen
Aleus Galenus (Galen) credits the first non-emergency tracheotomy (making an incision in the throat and inserting a tube to allow someone to breathe without using their nose or mouth) to Asclepiades of Bithynia. -
200
Barber
Barber-surgeons cut hair, perform surgery; barbor pole symbol popularized -
Period: 200 to
Medical Timeline
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 5, 1300
Islamic Hospital
In Islam there was generally a moral imperative to treat all the ill regardless of their financial status. The hospitals were largely secular institutions, many of them open to anyone, muslim or not. They tended to be large, urban structures. The Islamic hospital served several purposes: a center of medical treatment, a convalescent home for those recovering from illness or accidents, an insane asylum, and a retirement home giving basic maintenance needs for the elderly or anyone wihtout family. -
Sep 5, 1302
Christian monasteries
Christian monasteries are founded to treat the ill -
Sep 5, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie (a skilled midwife and healer who took the pulses of her patients and tested their urine to assist in diagnosis) tries to practice medicine but is denied. Her patients acclaimed her skill in healing both internal and external injuries and wounds. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Renaissance
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Sep 5, 1500
Anatomy
Human anatomical studies are allowed. -
Scientific Method
Use of the scientific method begins. -
Robert Hooke
Hooke was the first person to use the word "cell" to identify microscopic structures when he was describing cork. -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas. -
Discovery
Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease. -
Louis Pastuer
Louis Pastuer invents the technique of treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process now called pasteurization. Pastuer also identifies germs as cause of disease. (1822-1895) -
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister practices medical aspesis 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. (1827-1912) -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch discovers pathogens. (1843-1910) -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing and discovers how to the prevent the transmission of puerperal fever. -
John Snow
John Snow stops outbreak of cholera. -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity. (1897-1904) -
Bubonic Plague
Bubonic plague hits San Francisco. Without treatment, the bubonic plague kills about two thirds of infected humans within four days. (1900-1909) -
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Modern World
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Discovery
Organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, and CAT scans are discovered. -
Alexander Flemina
Alexander Flemina discovers penicillin. (1928-1945) -
HMO
First health maintenance organization (HMO). HMO is an organization that provides or arranges managed care for health insurance, self-funded health care benefit plans, individuals, and other entities in the United States and acts as a liaison with health care providers on a prepaid basis. (1930-1960) -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine. -
Health Care
Managed health care is used to describe a variety of techniques intended to reduce the cost of providing health benefits and improve the quality of care. (1980-1998) -
WHO
World Health Organization declares smallpox (a serious and contagious disease due to a virus )eradicated. -
AZT
Prescription drug, Zidovudine, is used to combat AIDS and slow progress of the disease. (1981-1986) -
Medical Care
Medical care becomes regulated. -
Rhazes
Rhazes was among the first to recognize the need for sanitation of infected patients in hospitals. Rhazes prepared the first treatise ever written on smallpox and measles for diagnostic differentiation between these two infections, which is the basis for new medicine to diagnose and treat smallpox and measles, according to his experience of patients in hospital.
