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Galen, a greek doctor, performed tracheotomy with his medical knowledge and his belief in the four body humors.
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Barber-surgeons cut hair, perform surgery; barber pole symbol popularized
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The profession rose with more writings and works considering the process of examining the inside of the human body.
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A Sicilian named Roger required doctors to have a medical license to practice, a hint of regulation.
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About 400 hospitals were built in the cities, towns, and villages in England.
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The medical school at Montpellier allowed people with a medical license to teach at the school, regardless of religious background. Later the school of anatomy was built
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Muslims followed the Quran and Hadiths, which told the people to care for the sick, establishing places where the sick could be treated.
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A French doctor, Guy de Chauliac, said Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are in close position, a sign of great and disasterous was going to happen.
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The "Black Plague" ravaged Europe from middle Asia and killed about 1/3 of the European population
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A French woman named Jacoba Felicie was denied to practice healthcare when women were forbidden to do so.
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The printing press became more popular in medical healthcare to make books about the experiments and discoveries of scientists and doctors aloke.
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Ambroise Pare wrote a book about his military experiences and about how to properly treat wounds.
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Paracelsus was a Swiss scientist who thought diseases were due to chemicals in the body instead of the four humors.
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The scientific method became a more common process of researching to find more evidence-based conclusions about medicine and diseases.
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William Harvey studied dying dogs and their hearts. He discovered that it pumped blood throughout the body and that it had 2 chambers.
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Marcello Malpighi was the first to discover capillaries, tubes that circulate blood throughout the body.
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Robert Hooke was an English philosopher, architect, and scientist who created the reflective microscope to study cells and the body parts of flies.
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The Royal Society in London performed an experiment in transfering blood from one dog to another.
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Antonie von Leeuwenhoek was considered as the "father of microbiology", who improved the microscope and found tiny microorganisms such as bacteria and muscle fibers.
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Francis Bacon used the microscope to discover plague fleas, the initial cause of the Bubonic Plague.
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An English doctor named Edward Jenner injected people with fluid from smallpox blisters to see if the injection could help people fight the cowpox disease.
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The Parish of Bradford's poor were taken care of by a workhouse prior to the Poor Law Amendment Act.
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Louis Pasteur was a chemist who disproved the idea that bacteria came from nothing with spontaneous generation.
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Joseph Lister used the method of sterile surgery like medical asipsis for better surgeries that did not cause infections afterwards for the patients.
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Robert Koch discovered certain bacteria, also known as pathogens, that contribute to the cause and spread of diseases.
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Ignaz Semmelweis, and Austrian, studied the effects of hand washing with bacteria, promoting the importance of hand washing.
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A physician named John Snow studied and experimented to find a cure that eventually did eventually ceased the unstoppable spread of cholera.
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The act gave local authorities to destroy buildings that lacked proper sewage drainage and garbage disposal.
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Marie Curie was a physicist worked in the science of radioactivity with uranium rays, found that they were constant. She theorized that the rays came from the element's atomic structure.
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The Bubonic plague attacked San Francisco in Chinatown, which reignited racial prejudices about the Chinese.
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Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic called penicillin. He found a way to prevent diseases from affecting people before they actually affect them.
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The first HMO insurance was to eliminate individual healthcare which was approved by both Democrats and Republicans.
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American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk created and tested a vaccine for poliomyelitis.
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WHO (the World Health Organization) officially declared that smallpox has been eradicated, but some live virus samples have been preserved.
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Azidothymidine (AZT) was used as an antiretroviral drug to give therapy for HIV/AIDS.
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Healthcare became more regulated, controlling the cost and quality of services for customers. Due to growing costs more people are living without health insurance.
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots to use in treatment for infectious diseases.
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Gardasil is a vaccine that helps treat certain strains of human papillomaviruses, like HPV type 6, 11, 16, 18.
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MIPPA is an incentive program that gives practicing specialists cash based on their Medicare payment claims.
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The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved the first artificial heart that was implanted in a patient with great heart failures.
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Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
