History in Health Care

By emilyjanis
  • first printing press
    Oct 1, 1439

    first printing press

    the Printing press changed the medical field for ever, allowing medical books to be made and records to be kept.
  • Microscope is invented

    Microscope is invented

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek invtented the microscope allowing scienctist the ability to do resaearch more easily and look at bactieria.

  • First mercury thermometer

    Created in 1714 by Gabriel Fahrenheit made taking tempertures alot easier for all nureses and doctors.

  • America becomes America

  • First Successful Cesarean in US

    Elizabeth Bennett delivers a daughter by cesarean section, becoming the first woman in the United States to give birth this way and survive. Her husband, Jesse, is the physician who performs the operation.

  • Vaccaine for smallpox

    Vaccine was made Edward Jenner, it stoped the spread of all small pox

  • First practical anesthetic, ethet, introdecuded

  • Elizabeth Blackwell first woman doctor

    she became the first woman to qualitfy as a doctor in the US, inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.
  • American red cross is founded

    American red cross is founded

    Clara Barton was the one who founded the American Red cross, it changed America by helping all in need

  • Rabies vaccine deiscoverd

    Helped get rid of rabies curing alot of people

  • first doctor to use an antiseptic furing surgery

    in the late 1800's Joseph Lister uses an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection with the incision.
  • X-rays are discoverd

    X-rays are discoverd

    This was the first xray done by William Harvey of his wifes hand. The black dot on her finger is her wedding ring.

  • isolated radium

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    WW1

  • Penicillin in 1928

    discoverd by Alexander Fleming, penicilin was the first anti biotic which kills bacteria
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    WW2

  • Polio vaccine

    Discovered by Jonas Salk
  • heart-lung bypass

    heart-lung bypass

    Dr. John Heysham Gibbon used his new invention, the heart-lung bypass machine, for the first time in open-heart surgery, completely supporting a patient's heart and lung functions for about half the time of the surgery.
  • first successful kidnet transplant

    first successful kidnet transplant

    after at least nine failures, a team of surgeons at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston transplanted a kidney from a 24-year-old man to his twin brother. The recipient lived 11 years more, and in 1990 the lead surgeon, Dr. Joseph E. Murray, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.

  • first Birth Control Pills

    The FDA approves of Birth control pills

  • first successful heart transplant

    53 year old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

  • first test tube baby

    Louise Brown was the first successful test tube baby born in Great britian
  • Dolly the sheep

    Dolly the sheep

    First sheep was clones, this is important because now scients will be able to clone cells or anything that will be needed.

  • AIDS first recognizeed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    It was publicly came out about AIDS

  • start of acupuncture

    acupuncture relieves pain and congestion done by the Chinese