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Period: 150 to Sep 9, 1500
Middle Ages
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200
Galen Discovers Cure to Breathing Problems
Galen discovered that opening up the trachea in surgery can help with difficulties breathing. -
Period: 200 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 476 to Sep 9, 1500
Barber Pole
Barbers were also surgeons. Surguries would take place in the same place you would get your hair cut -
Sep 10, 1248
Ibn an-Nafis
Ibn discovers that the right and left ventricals, large chambers that collect blood, are seperate. He also discovers the polmonary circulation coronary circulation. -
Sep 10, 1300
Islamic Hospitals
Islamic hospitals were nothing like hospitals today. There was no infection control and not very many treatments. All lot of patients would not die from the illness or wound, they would die later from infection or a surgery that didn't work. -
Sep 9, 1350
Christian Monasteries
These were created to teat the ill. At this time, most people who were sick would just go there to die as there were no medical practices against illness. -
Sep 10, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
In the middle ages, women were not allowed to become doctors, especially not practice as a physician. Jocaba however did so as a women. She did everything with great precision, but was still found guilty. She had a fine of 60 pounds and historians don't know if she continued in secret or not. -
Period: Sep 9, 1500 to
Renaissance
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Period: Sep 11, 1500 to
Anatomical Studies
In this time period these studies were very helpful in understanding the human body. Sadley, they were done in front of the town, for everyone to see. The patient was usually a criminal who was still alive, and the surgery was his punishment. -
Sep 10, 1550
First Anatomical Studies
This is the first disection of the human body. Leanardo da Vinci made a detailed drawing of the disection. These helped with the understanding of muscles, organs, and many other internal body parts. -
Scientific Method
This is when the beginning of the use of scientific method started. The method is used to run an experiment and get the most out of it that you can. -
Printing Press
The first printing press was created near the 1650's. The printing pressed allowed mass production of medical information and reports of surgeries and experiments to be better recorded. It also helped the new found information to get out to others a lot faster. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke was responsible for the very first reflectice microscope. The microscope helped us look in extreme detail at things the human eye could not see. It led to the dicovery of tiny organisms in water and other places. -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie is known as the father of microbiolagy because was the first person to describe bacteria. Due to his keen eyesight and microscope making mastery, he was able to make extremely detailed drawings of bacteria, and list comprehensive data. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon discovered that the bubonic plague was not just from rats and mice. It was actually mainly from the fleas that lived on the rodents. -
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Inustrial Revolution
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New Discoveries
Around this time during the beginning of the industrial revolution, blood cells were discovered, as well as different types of bacteria, protozoa, and the stethoscope. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner created the first vaccination for smallpox. The vaccination led to the complete eradication of the entire disease. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis was responsible for the creation of pasteured milk. This means he created a process to stop diseases and bacteria running through milk. -
Joseph Lister
Joseph was the start to medical asepsis. This means he created a surgical environment in which bacteria would not infect the person after surgery, helping to increase succes rates of surgeries. -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch was the first to discover pathogens. Pathogens are simply anything that can cause a disease such as a virus, fungus, parasite, etcetera. -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz showed improtance of hand washing. Due to this, the mortality rate dropped below 1% helping prove how important hand washing is. -
John Snow
John Snow stopped the outbreak of cholera. He had experienced the disease several times and created a very detailed map about the disease in order to help stop the outbreak. -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was the first person to experiment with radioactivity. Radioactivity just has to with radioation. -
Period: to
Modern Times
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Alexander Fleming
Alexander fleming developed penicillin. Penicillin is used in antibiotics which help defeat viruses that you immune system can not. -
First HMO Insurance
In this year the first healthcare insurance was developed. Insurance is when whatever you have that is insured gets destroyed, you get money to help fix it. -
New Discoveries
The worlds medical field extremely devoloped during this time. We created MRI's, cat scans, x-rays, cancer treatment, and started organ transplants. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk devloped a vaccine for polio. Polio was a disease that paralyzed over 13 thousand kids a year. Thanks to this vaccine it eventually led to the eradication of the disease. -
AZT
AZT was created in order to combat aids. It was very expensive and not completely effective as wiping out the disease in the body. It was still the first way to help with aids. -
Smallpox Eradicated
Smallpox was officially eradicated in this year. It was eradicated by the World Health Organization. It is a big deal because it was extremely infectious, had been around for a really long time, and it killed many people. -
Maggot Treatment
Steve Thomas started using sterile, or sanitized, maggots in order to heal infections. The maggots would eat the germs that caused the infection cleaning up the wound. -
AbioCor
AbioCor developed the very first artificial heart that was accepted by the FDA. This means we can create all sorts of organs for people to have implemented into their body and run as a real heart. -
Rhazes Smallpox and Measles
Rhazes discovers there is a difference between smallpox and measles. The difference is that the corruption of the measles did not stay under the skin like smallpox did. This explains why smallpox are itchier and more painful. -
Regulated Healthcare
Health Care being regulated means that they recorded things that happened medically. The recording was no where near what it is today, but it was something.
