History of Heath Care

By ZacharyWucki
  • Hippocrates 400 B.C.E
    400

    Hippocrates 400 B.C.E

    The Father of Medicine
  • Egyptians 3500-500 B.C.E.
    500

    Egyptians 3500-500 B.C.E.

    Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records.
  • Period: Oct 9, 1400 to

    Renaissance

    First medical schools were built
  • Period: Oct 9, 1500 to

    Andreas Vesalius, Leonardo DaVinici, William Harvey, and Anton Von Leeqwenhock

    dissected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings.William described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart. Anton invented the microscope.
  • Period: to

    Franklin and Laennec

    Franklin; Invented bifocals and found that coulds could be passed from person to person. Laennec ; Invented the stethoscope.

  • Birth of the U.S.A.

  • Jenner;

    Jenner;

    Vaccination for Smallpox
  • Period: to

    Joseph Lister, Ignas Semmelweiss, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Signond Freud

    Lister, first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision. Semmelweiss, identified the cause of maternal infection. Pasteur, heating milk killed growth of bacteria. Koch "father of Microbiology. Freud studiesd the effects of the unconscious mind.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S.

  • Clara Barton

    Founded the American Red Cross

  • William Roentgen

    Discovered X-Rays
  • Middle Ages 400-1400 C.E

    Middle Ages 400-1400 C.E

    Medicine practiecd only in monasteries, the saving the soul and study of medicince was prohibited.
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Isolated Radium in 1910

  • World War I

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin
  • Period: to

    Cold War

  • Jonas Salk

    Developed the polio vaccien
  • Christian Bannard

    Christian Bannard

    performed the world's first heart transplant surgery
  • Period: to

    Newer Invertions

    Tissue Cloning; is the process of creating an identical copy of an original cell. Gene Mapping; refers to the mapping of genes to specific locations on chromosomes.