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Period: 100 to 400
Greeks and Romans
began the study of diseases. Code of ethics created fro physicians "Hippocratic Oath." Began public health and sanitation systems. -
300
Hippocratic Oath
Hippocrates, "the father of medicine" a greek philospher started searching for the natural explanations of diseases. -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark Ages
Study of medical science stopped. Focus was religion. plagues and epidemics accured. -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
the Rebirth of science and discovery. Disections accured and printing press invented. -
Jan 1, 1500
Anatomical Studies of the body
Andreas Vesalins and Leonardo Da Vinci, disected and study the human body. created the first anatomical drawings. -
Invetion of Microscope
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the first microscope. -
Circulation of the Heart
William Harvey acurately described the circulation of blood to and from the Heart. -
Mercury Thermometer
physicist Gabrial Fahrenheit, invented the first mercury in-glass thermometer. as well as the Fahrenheit temperature scale named after himself. -
Blood Pressure
Stephen Hales, took the first recorded measurement of blood pressure on a horse. -
Smallpox Vaccine
Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine for smallpox. -
"Laughing gas"
Humphry Davy, discovered the pain releif properties of nitrous oxide. coined the term "laughing gas" -
Dentist pain relief
Dentist, Horace Wells was the first to use nitrous oxide to anesthetize patients. -
Modern Nursing
Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing. created a nursing school. -
Pasteurization
Louis Pasteur was a microbiologist and chemist who researched the causes and preventions of diseases. he learned that beverages were consumed with dangerous organisms and tested heating them to kill the bacteria. this was later known as pasteurization. -
Heredity
Gregory Mendel established the patterns of heredity. -
American Red Cross
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. -
Antiseptic Surgeries
Joseph Lister was the first doctor to use disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery. -
X-Rays
William Roentgen discovered X-rays -
Identifying bacterium
Robert Koch, the founder of bacteriology, discovered the bacteria causing tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax. developed culture plate method to identify pathogens. -
Isolation of Radium
Marie Curie was the first women to recieve the nobel prize on her studies of radioactivity and her skills in isolating radioactive isotopes. -
Penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming invented the antibiotic, Penicillin. -
Heart Surgery
Robert Gross, preformed the first surgical correction of a common heart illness in children. "open heart surgery" -
Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine for polio. -
Magnetic resonance imaging
Herman Carr produced the one dimensional MRI, that magnetically x-rayed the contrast of soft tissues. very good for looking at the brain. -
Tube Baby
in great britain, Louise Brown is the first tube baby to be born.
