History of Healthcare

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
08/17/573	Aurelius Cassiodorus	-Recommended [to the Benedictine Order] the study of Latin to be translations which preserved medicine information. - 480-573
09/01/1000	Medicine Wheel	It relates the weather to different kinds of sicknesses.
11/01/1000	Hippocrates	-Known for his good physician skills. -Hippocratic Oath- Oath for doctors to be ethical.
01/01/1348	Black Death	BLACK DEATH: Most devastating pandemics in the human history. 1348-1350 30-60 percent of Europe’s population. Took 150 years for Europe to recover.
11/01/1439	typewriter	Gutenberg was the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439. Among his many contributions to printing are: the invention of a process for mass-producing movable type; the use of oil-based ink; and the use of a wooden printing press similar to the agricultural screw presses of the period
10/21/1498	da vinci	Leonardo Da Vinci dissect the human body in 1498. In 30 years, Leonardo dissected 30 male and female corpses of different ages. He also studied the inclination of pelvis and sacrum and stressed that sacrum was not uniform, but composed of five vertebrae.
11/01/1552	Ebers' papyrus	The Ebers' papyrus is the oldest preserved medical document. It is written in hieratic script and contains the most complete record of Egyptian medicine known. The papyrus contains chapters on intestinal disease, helminthiasis, ophthalmology, dermatology, gynecology, obstetrics, pregnancy diagnosis, contraception, dentistry, and the surgical treatment of abscesses, tumors, fractures and burns. The Egyptians say that a depressed skull fracture looked like a puncture in a pottery jar.
11/01/1600	Early 1600's	Middle Age medicine of the 1600's was almost hazardous to your health. People thought that bad hygiene and bad odors made bad health. They believed you got sick from the odors because of sins from the soul. Middle Age medicine was when the knights were alive. They needed a lot of medicine back then because they were always getting wounded by other knights. One of the biggest plagues was the black death
05/01/1642	Mid 1600's	Despite being excluded from formal education, women provided many paid services that the public needed, including sick-nursing and wet-nursing, midwifery, minor surgery and general physic. Wet-nursing was unlicensed and remained a casual trade - although a very large one. Midwives were unable to form guilds, but they had to be licensed. In the 1600s midwives such as Louise Bourgeois and Jane Sharp became the first to write about their experiences. However, male practitioners were gradually repla
10/01/1700	Early 1700's	There was very little of what we think of health care today in the 1700's. There were almost no medicines of any real value. Surgery very commonly resulted in death since they did not understand about germs. A doctor might set a broken leg or sew up a cut, but even these frequently got infected. Amputation of limbs was common. Some medical practices such as bleeding patients often did more harm than good.
11/02/1700	Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus	The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is one of the oldest of all known medical papyri, illustrating the teachings of the Father of Medicine Imhotep.The seventeen columns on the recto comprise part of a surgical treatise.This surgical treatise consists exclusively of cases, not recipes. The treatise is systematically organized in an arrangement of cases, which begin with injuries of the head and proceed downward through the body, like a modern treatise on anatomy.
11/01/1800	Francois Magendie	he was considered the father of pharmocology• Remembered for his experimental proofs that the posterior roots of the spinal canal carry sensory nerve fibers and the anterior roots are motor nerves. • Analyses of the actions of drugs also made him a founder of the discipline of pharmacology.
10/21/1811	Clara Barton	Carla Barton 1881- Founded the American Red Cross
11/01/1827	Practice of medical asepsis	Joesph Lister practices medical asepsis
11/01/1847	Handwashing is important	Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of handwashing
10/21/1849	Elizabeth Blackwell	Elizabeth Blackwell 1849- first women physician in the U.S.
11/01/1854	Cholera outbreak was stopped by John Snow
10/21/1860	Florence Nightingale	Florence Nightingale 1860- First nursing school and respectable physician
10/21/1863	Dorathea Dix	Dorothea Dix 1863- Founded the international Red Cross
10/21/1893	Lillian Wald	Wald 1893- nurse that visited homes in N.Y.C
11/02/1895	Louis Pasteur	Found that by heathing milk bacteria could be killed. Pasturization
11/08/1895	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen	German Physicist Wilhem Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays
11/01/1897	Science of Radioactivity is found	Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity
11/02/1910	Discovers pathogents	Robert Koch discovers that pathogens can create illnesses
11/01/1928	Penicillin was discovered	Alexander Fleming discover's penicillin
11/01/2001	Maggots used to clean wounds	Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
11/01/2011	Small Pox eradicated	World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated
11/01/2011	Small Pox Vaccine, the first vaccine	Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
11/01/2011	Louis Pasteur Father of Mircobiology	Pasturize milk