History in Health Care

  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle Ages

  • Jan 1, 1010

    Avicenna

    Writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • Oct 9, 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    Invents the spectacles
  • Jan 1, 1290

    Fra Bonvicino

    Wrote about how people have to use untensils
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • Oct 9, 1489

    Leonardo DeVinci

    Disects the first corpus
  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen
    Invents the microscope
  • Anton van Leewenhoek

    Discovers blood cells
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Discovers blood cells
  • Small Pox

    Vaccination against
  • Claudius Aymand

    Performs the first sucessful appendectomy
  • Edward Jenner

    Developed a vaccine for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Invents the first stethoscope
  • Dr. Horace Wells

    Uses nitrous oxcide as an anesthetic
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    First woman to qualify as a doctor in the US
  • Louis Pasteur

    Indentifys that germs are a disease
  • Clara Barton

    Founded the American Red Cross
  • WIllhelm Roentgen

    WIllhelm Roentgen
    Discovered x-rays
  • Felix Hoffman

    Developes asprin
  • Marie Curie

    Isolated radium
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    Discovered penicillin
  • John Hopps

    John Hopps
    Developes first pacemaker
  • Jonas Salk

    Developed the polio vaccine
  • Christian Bernard

    Performed the world's first heartplant surgery
  • Robert S. Ledley

    Robert S. Ledley
    Developes the first CAT scan
  • Galen

    Life of Greek Galen was created
  • Persian physician Rhazes

    Persian physician Rhazes
    Indentifies smallpox