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200
Galen; tracheotomy
Galen, a greek doctor, performed tracheotomy with his medical knowledge and his belief in the four body humors. -
Period: 200 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
Barber-surgeons cut hair, perform surgery; barber pole symbol popularized -
Jan 1, 1000
Surgery Profession
The profession rose with more writings and works considering the process of examining the inside of the human body. -
Jan 1, 1140
Regulation
A Sicilian named Roger required doctors to have a medical license to practice, a hint of regulation. -
Jan 1, 1200
English Hospitals
About 400 hospitals were built in the cities, towns, and villages in England. -
Jan 1, 1289
Medical School at Montpellier
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 -
Jan 1, 1300
Islamic Hospitals
Muslims followed the Quran and Hadiths, which told the people to care for the sick, establishing places where the sick could be treated. -
Jan 1, 1345
Cause of Black Plague
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. -
Jan 1, 1348
Black Plague
The "Black Plague" ravaged Europe from middle Asia and killed about 1/3 of the European population -
Jan 1, 1400
Frenchwoman denied practicing healthcare
A French woman named Jacoba Felicie was denied to practice healthcare when women were forbidden to do so. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
The Renaissance
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Sep 11, 1530
printing press
The printing press became more popular in medical healthcare to make books about the experiments and discoveries of scientists and doctors aloke. -
Jan 1, 1545
Pare and wound treatment
Ambroise Pare wrote a book about his military experiences and about how to properly treat wounds. -
Jan 1, 1567
Paracelsus and his Books
Paracelsus was a Swiss scientist who thought diseases were due to chemicals in the body instead of the four humors. -
Use of Scientific Method Begins
The scientific method became a more common process of researching to find more evidence-based conclusions about medicine and diseases. -
Harvey and Dogs
William Harvey studied dying dogs and their hearts. He discovered that it pumped blood throughout the body and that it had 2 chambers. -
Malpighi and capillaries
Marcello Malpighi was the first to discover capillaries, tubes that circulate blood throughout the body. -
Robert Hooke - reflective microscope
Robert Hooke was an English philosopher, architect, and scientist who created the reflective microscope to study cells and the body parts of flies. -
First Blood Transfusion
The Royal Society in London performed an experiment in transfering blood from one dog to another. -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek was considered as the "father of microbiology", who improved the microscope and found tiny microorganisms such as bacteria and muscle fibers. -
Francis Bacon and Plague Fleas
Francis Bacon used the microscope to discover plague fleas, the initial cause of the Bubonic Plague. -
Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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English and the first vaccine
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. -
Parish of Bradford
The Parish of Bradford's poor were taken care of by a workhouse prior to the Poor Law Amendment Act. -
Louis Pasteur and Microbiology
Louis Pasteur was a chemist who disproved the idea that bacteria came from nothing with spontaneous generation. -
Joseph Lister; medical asipsis
Joseph Lister used the method of sterile surgery like medical asipsis for better surgeries that did not cause infections afterwards for the patients. -
Robert Koch's pathogen discovery
Robert Koch discovered certain bacteria, also known as pathogens, that contribute to the cause and spread of diseases. -
Ignaz Semmelweis and hand washing
Ignaz Semmelweis, and Austrian, studied the effects of hand washing with bacteria, promoting the importance of hand washing. -
John Snow stops cholera
A physician named John Snow studied and experimented to find a cure that eventually did eventually ceased the unstoppable spread of cholera. -
Artisans and Labourers Dwellings Act
The act gave local authorities to destroy buildings that lacked proper sewage drainage and garbage disposal. -
Marie Curie; science of radioactivity
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. -
Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
The Bubonic plague attacked San Francisco in Chinatown, which reignited racial prejudices about the Chinese. -
Period: to
The Modern World
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic called penicillin. He found a way to prevent diseases from affecting people before they actually affect them. -
First HMO insurance
The first HMO insurance was to eliminate individual healthcare which was approved by both Democrats and Republicans. -
Salk discovers polio vaccine
American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk created and tested a vaccine for poliomyelitis. -
WHO declares smallpox eradicated
WHO (the World Health Organization) officially declared that smallpox has been eradicated, but some live virus samples have been preserved. -
AZT against AIDS
Azidothymidine (AZT) was used as an antiretroviral drug to give therapy for HIV/AIDS. -
managed healthcare; growth in uninsured
Healthcare became more regulated, controlling the cost and quality of services for customers. Due to growing costs more people are living without health insurance. -
Steve Thomas and sterile maggots
Steve Thomas used sterile maggots to use in treatment for infectious diseases. -
Gardasil
Gardasil is a vaccine that helps treat certain strains of human papillomaviruses, like HPV type 6, 11, 16, 18. -
MIPPA provides incentives
MIPPA is an incentive program that gives practicing specialists cash based on their Medicare payment claims. -
1st FDA-approved artificial heart
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved the first artificial heart that was implanted in a patient with great heart failures. -
Rhazes' discovery
Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
