History of Health Care

Hippocrates

100

Known as the father of medicine.
(Real date is about 300BCE)

Dark Ages

Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1000

Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited.

Johannes Gutenberg

Jan 1, 1440

Invented the printing press.

Gutenberg Bible

Jan 1, 1450

First book that was printed.

Leonardo da Vinci

Jan 1, 1489

Used dissection to draw the human body.

Zacharius Jannssen

Jan 1, 1590

He invents the microscope.

William Harvey

Jan 1, 1628

Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Jan 1, 1670

He discovers blood cells.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Jan 1, 1683

He observes bacteria.

New York

Jun 10, 1760

Passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine.

Convention

Jan 1, 1787

The constitutional convention was held.

George Washington

Apr 30, 1789

He became the first president.

Edward Jenner

Jan 1, 1796

Developed a vaccine for smallpox.

Marine Hospital Service

Jul 16, 1798

Established with the signing by President John Adams of an act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.

Lewis

Period: Jan 1, 1804 to Jan 1, 1806

Lewis and Clark expediton

Rene Laennec

Jan 1, 1816

Invents the stethoscope.

James Blundell

Jan 1, 1818

He performed the first successful transfusion of human blood.

Civil War

Jan 1, 1861

This is the year that the Civil War started.

Gregory Mendel

Jan 1, 1863

Established the patterns of heredity.

Clara Barton

Jan 1, 1881

Founded the American Red Cross.

Louis Pasteur

Jan 1, 1882

First vaccine developed for rabies.

Tetanus

Jan 1, 1890

First vaccine developed.

William Roentgen

Jan 1, 1895

Discovered X-rays.

Typhoid Fever

Sep 30, 1896

First vaccine developed for this.

Bubonic Plague

Jan 1, 1897

First vaccine is developed for this.

Felix Hoffman

Jan 1, 1899

Develops aspirin.

Marie Curie

Jan 1, 1910

Isolated radium.

World War 1

Jul 28, 1914

WWI started this day.

Diabetes

Jan 1, 1922

Insulin is first used to help treat it.

Diphtheria

Jan 1, 1923

First vaccine developed.

Whooping Cough

Jan 1, 1926

First vaccine developed.

Tuberculosis

Jan 1, 1927

First vaccine developed.

Alexander Fleming

Jan 1, 1928

Discovered penicillin.

Yellow Fever

Jan 1, 1935

First vaccine developed.

Influenza

Jan 1, 1945

First vaccine developed

Jonas Salk

Jan 1, 1952

Developed the polio vaccine.

Twin Towers

Sep 11, 2001

Terrorists crashed two planes into the towers.

Romans

Mar 2, 2022

Began public health and sanitation systems.