History of medicine

By LindseyHerzog
  • 100

    romans began sanitation systems

    Aqueducts were built to bring fresh water in and waste out to keep the city clean and free of disease
  • 100

    3500-500 B.C.E Egyptians

    They were the first to keep acurate health records and used medicines to heal diseases
  • 100

    400 BCE hippocrates wrote the hippocratic oath

  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    dark and middle ages

    the study of medical science stopped and herbal remedies were often used
  • Jan 1, 1000

    First school of medicine

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Christopheer discovered America

  • Jan 1, 1508

    Leonardo da Vinci studied the human body with corpses

    By this time he had already conducted ten or more human disections

  • William Harvey descibed the circulation of blood in the heart

    He observed the heart in living animals and proved that blood moves around the body and back to the heart

  • America was declared a country

  • Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals

    Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals

  • Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox

  • Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope

  • James Bundle first blood transfussion

  • Elizabeth Blackwell became a doctor

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

  • Florance Nightengale started the first nursing school

  • Gregory mendel published results of his research of patterns of heredity

    Gregory Mendel researched the patterns of heredity for six years using pea plants

  • Joseph Lister first used antiseptic during surgery

    He believed that disease was carried by microbes in the air and that a cut had to be thuroughly cleaned in order to keep the patient from recieving the bacteria carrying microbes

  • Robert Koch developed the culture plat method to identify pathogens

  • Clara Barton founded the Red Cross

    Clara Barton founded the Red Cross

  • William Roentgen discovered x-rays

    William Roentgen discovered x-rays

    He first tested the x-ray on his wifes hand

  • Sigmond Frued studied the effects of the mind on the body

    He was determined that the mind and body work together

  • Marie Curie isolated radium

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin

  • Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine

  • Chrisian Bernard preformed the worlds first heart transplant

  • Vietnam War

  • First test tube baby

  • Dolly the sheep was born

    Dolly the sheep was born

    She was the first cloned mammal