history of health

  • Jan 1, 1485

    Leonardo DaVinci

    Leonardo DaVinci
    he used dissection to draw human body
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    Described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
  • anton von leeuwenhoek

    anton von leeuwenhoek
    He invented the Microscope
  • Period: to

    Revoloutaionary war

  • Ben Franklin

    Ben Franklin
    He invented the Bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person
  • Vaccine for Smallpox

    Vaccine for Smallpox
    Edward Jenner Discovered a Vaccine for smallpox in 1796
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    He invented the rabies Vaccine that proved micro-organisms diasese and discovered heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria (pasterazation)
  • Stethoscope

    Stethoscope
    He invented the stethoscope in 1816, after he diagnosed a ton of chest dieses
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    He invented the vaccination for smallpox
  • Robert Koch

    Robert  Koch
    He discovered many dieses causing organsims
  • Ignas Semmelweiss

    Ignas Semmelweiss
    He suggested newborns and their mothers were dying because in the delivary room the doctors werent washing their hands.
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell
    She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S
  • Modern Nursing

    Modern Nursing
    Florence Nightengale founded Modern Nursing
  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Dorthea Dix

    Dorthea Dix
    Superintendent of army nurses
  • Infection Prevention

    Infection Prevention
    Joseph Lister The first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision
  • Red Cross

    Red Cross
    Clara Barton Founded the red cross
  • Gregory Mendel

    Gregory Mendel
    Established the pattern of hereditary
  • X-rays were discovered

    X-rays were discovered
    Willhem Roentgen dicovered zrays in 1895, to help doctors find out what was wrong with people
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    determined the body and mind work together
  • Isolated Radium

    Isolated Radium
    Radium was Isolated By marie curie
  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • alexander fleming

    alexander fleming
    began the use of animal gut for suture material
  • Pennicillion

    Pennicillion
    Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin
  • Period: to

    World War 2

  • Polio

    Polio
    Jonas Salk Invented the Polio Vaccine in 1952
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    Creator of the oral poluio vaccine which was more affective then the vaccine
  • Christian Benard

    Christian Benard
    He performeed the first tranplant surgery