History of Health Care

By ZoeShaina
  • 400

    Dark Ages and Middle Ages

    The dark ages and middle ages went from 400-1400 AD
  • Jan 1, 1542

    Mississippi River

    Mississippi River
    Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi River

  • Microscope

    Microscope
    Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Jamestown

    John Smith founded the Jamestown Settlement

  • Blood

    William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals, describing how blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart, and then returns to the heart and recirculates

  • Sir Christopher Wren

    Sir Christopher Wren
    Doing experimenting on dogs, Sir Christopher Wren was the first to administer medications by means of an animal bladder attached to a sharpened quill. Wren also experimented with canine blood transfusions

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek refines the microscope and discovers blood cells and observes animal and plant tissues and microorganisms

  • Charles Town

    Charles Town was founded

  • Illinois Country

    Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette began to explore the Illinois Country

  • Dominion of New England

    The Dominion of New England was established

  • War of the Grand Alliance

    War of the Grand Alliance

  • First Great Awakening

    First Great Awakening

  • Scurvy

    James Lind , a naval surgeon, discovered that citrus fruits prevent scurvy

  • James Lind

    James Lind publishes his "Treatise of the Scurvy" identifying the cure for this common and dangerous disease of sailors

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Bank of North America

    Bank of North America
    The Bank of North America was chartered

  • James Blundell

    James Blundell
    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to receive a medical degree

  • Dr. Horace Wells

    Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

  • Cholera

    First vaccine for cholera

  • Anthrax

    First vaccine for anthrax

  • Rabies

    First vaccine for rabies

  • Antitioxins

    Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines

  • X Rays

    German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays

  • Marie Curie isolated radium

    Marie Curie isolated radium
    Marie Curie isolated radium

  • Typhus

    First vaccine for typhus

  • Influenze

    First vaccine for influenza

  • Paul Zoll

    Paul Zoll
    Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat

  • Measles

    First vaccine for measles

  • Heart Transplant

    Heart Transplant
    Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant

  • Mumps

    First vaccine for mumps

  • Chicken Pox

    First vaccine for chicken pox

  • Test-Tube Baby

    Test-Tube Baby
    First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.

  • Smallpox

    Persian physician Rhazes is the first to identify smallpox, as distinguished from measles, and to suggest blood as the cause of infectious disease