History Of Health Care

  • The Father of Medicine
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    The Father of Medicine

    Hippocrates
  • Egyptiains
    Jan 1, 1069

    Egyptiains

    (1069-653 BC) First people to keep medical records
  • The Renaissance
    Jan 1, 1400

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other Eurpoean countries. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine.
  • Dark Ages
    Jan 1, 1450

    Dark Ages

    Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited (1450-1863)
  • Leonardo Davinci
    Jan 1, 1489

    Leonardo Davinci

    Leonardo Davinci disects human corpses.
  • Dissection to Draw the Human Body
    Jan 1, 1543

    Dissection to Draw the Human Body

    Leonardo DaVinci
  • Zacharias Jannssen

    Zacharias Jannssen

    Zacharias Jannssen invents the microscope
  • Sir Christopher Wren

    Sir Christopher Wren

    Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions.
  • Blood Cell discovery

    Blood Cell discovery

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
  • Gabriel Farenhiet

    Gabriel Farenhiet

    Created the first mercury thermometer
  • Appendectomy

    Appendectomy

    Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy.
  • Vaccine for Small Pox

    Vaccine for Small Pox

    Created by Edward Jenner
  • Stethoscope

    Stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
  • Blood Transfusion

    Blood Transfusion

    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    (1822-2895) Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria
  • General Anesthetic

    Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic.
  • Syringe

    Syringe

    Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe
  • Florence Nightingdale

    Florence Nightingdale

    Founded the practice of nursing
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    Started the idea of using antiseptics and disinfectants during surgery
  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross

    Clara Barton
  • Contact Lenses

    Contact Lenses

    First contact lenses developed.
  • Discovered X-Rays

    Discovered X-Rays

    William Roentgen
  • Isolated Radium

    Isolated Radium

    Marie Curie isolated radium in 1910.
  • World War 1

    World War 1

    1914-1918
  • Influenza

    Outbreak of influenza that causes several thousands to die. First time we learned about disease spreading.
  • Band-Aid

    Band-Aid

    Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid
  • Iron Lung

    Iron Lung

    Iron lung is used to help patients with polio breathe.
  • Penicillin

    Penicillin

    Discovered by sir Alexander Flemming
  • WW 2

    The first forms of amputation were started and need for clean medical equipment arose.
  • World Health Organization Forms

    The World Health Organization is formed,
  • Pacemaker Invention

    Pacemaker Invention

    John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker.
  • Polio Vaccine

    Polio Vaccine

    Jonas Salk
  • DNA

    DNA

    James Watson and Francis Crick work on the structure of the DNA molecule
  • CAT-Scans

    Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans
  • Smallpox

    Smallpox is eradicated
  • HIV Identified

    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
  • Genetic Fingerprinting

    Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method
  • Dialysis Machine

    Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine.
  • Sheep Clone

    Sheep Clone

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
  • Rhazes

    (865-925 AD)An arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material