history of health

  • Leonardo DaVinci
    Jan 1, 1485

    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