History Of Medecine

By baileybarry
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    discovered difference between smallpox and measles
  • 1000

    Medical care becomes regulated

  • 1300

    Barber-Surgeons

    The Barber Surgeons cut hair, perform surgery, which came to be symbolized by the barber pole
  • 1300

    Islamic Hospitals

    Islamic Hospitals opened, providing health care for the sick
  • Jacoba Felicie
    1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    Jacoba Felicie, a frenchwoman, tries to practice medicine but is denied.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • The use of scientific method begins

  • The invention of the reflective microscope

    The invention of the reflective microscope by Robert Hooke, allowed scientists to see things at a new microscopic level.
  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria for the first time
  • The discovery of plague fleas

    The discovery of plague fleas

    Francis Bacon, uses a microscope and discovers these plague fleas

  • Printing press allows for publication of discoveries

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Pasteurization of milk

    Pasteurization of milk

  • Joseph Lister

    he practiced medical asepsis

  • The discovery of pathogens

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis

    He showed the world the importance of hand washing

  • John snow

    stopped the outbreak of cholera
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Descovery of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, CAT scans

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming

    discovers penicillin

  • First HMO insurance

  • Stalk

    Stalk

    discovers polio vaccine

  • AZT is used to combat AIDS

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
  • Gardasil, which was used to prevent cervical cancer, was approved by the FDA

    Gardasil, which was used to prevent cervical cancer, was approved by the FDA

  • The completion of the Human Genome Project

    they identified a complete set of DNA, which allows for new and completely individualized medications and treatments
  • The first FDA approved implated AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient.

    The first FDA approved implated AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient.

    The heart was placed in the patient on June 24, but the patient died on August 23

  • Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells