Health Occupations

DARK AND MIDDLE AGES

Period: 400 to Oct 7, 1400

first dissection of human corpse

Oct 7, 1300

no specific date

Black Plauge

Oct 8, 1348

75% of the Europe population died in 20 years

THE RENAISSANCE

Period: Oct 7, 1400 to Oct 7, 1650

printing press invented

Jan 1, 1450

microscope invented

Oct 8, 1590

Zucharius Jannssen

bacteria discovered

Oct 7, 1600

Small Pox Vaccine

Oct 7, 1796

Edward Jenner

stethescope invented

Oct 8, 1816

by Rene Laennec

first successful blood transfusion

Oct 8, 1818

James Blundell

Anesthetic - tooth extraction

Oct 8, 1846

Dr. William Morton uses anesthetic properties during a tooth extraction in Boston

First female to qualify as a doctor

Oct 7, 1849

Elizabeth Blackwell

Cholera Vaccine

Oct 8, 1879

Discovered X-Rays

Oct 7, 1895

William Roentgen

Gov. Recognized AIDS

Oct 7, 1895

AIDS excisted for a long time before this though

Isolated Radium

Oct 7, 1910

Marie Curie

Insulin first used to treat diabetes

Oct 8, 1922

Discovered Penicillin

Oct 7, 1928

Sir Alexander Fleming

WWII

Period: Sep 26, 1939 to Sep 26, 1945

first pacemaker

Oct 8, 1952

Paul Zoll

Discovery of DNA Structure

Oct 8, 1953

James Watson and Francis Crick

Chicken Pox Vaccine

Oct 8, 1974

1st test tube baby

Oct 7, 1978

Louise Brown of Great Britian

small pox is eradicated

Oct 8, 1980

by the World Health Organization

AIDS got identified

Oct 7, 1982

Discovery of HIV virus

Oct 8, 1983

Bird and Swine flue epidemics

Oct 8, 2011

An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals

Oct 8, 2013

published by William Harvey explaining how blood is pumped through the body by the heart and then recirculates

Classify Blood

Oct 8, 2013

Karl Landsteiner introduces a system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O

identified small pox

Mar 2, 2022

Persian physician Rhazes is the first to identify smallpox, as distinguished from measles, and to suggest blood as the cause of infectious disease.