History of Medicine

By JordanDanielski
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle ages

    The study of medical science stopped for over 100 years. Medicine practiced only in monasteries and convents.
    Used herbal medicine.
    there were many paluges and epidemics- bubonic plague, small pox, diphtheria, syphilis, tuberculosis.
  • Period: Sep 26, 1346 to Sep 26, 1353

    Black Death

  • Jan 1, 1400

    Medical schools were built

    1400-1650
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance-

    1.Rebirth of science
    2. Medical schools were built
    3. accepted the study of body by dissection
  • Sep 26, 1450

    Printing Press

  • Sep 26, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

  • dissections of the human bodies were made and the firs tanatomical drawings
    Jan 1, 1543

    dissections of the human bodies were made and the firs tanatomical drawings

    Andreas Vesalius and Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Accepted the study of body by dissection

    1400-1650

  • William Harvey described the circulation of blood and the pumping on the heart

  • colds could be passed from person to person discovered

    Benjamin Franklin- also invented bifocals

  • We became United States of America

  • first smallpox vaccine developed- Edward Jenner

    first smallpox vaccine developed- Edward Jenner

  • invention of the stethoscope- Rene Laennec

    invention of the stethoscope- Rene Laennec

  • Underground Railroad

  • Ignas Semmeiweiss

    Ignas Semmeiweiss

    instituted hand washing

  • first woman to quaaify as a doctor in the US- Elizabeth Blackwell

  • Florence Nightingale started the first nursing school

  • Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

    Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

  • Rabies vaccine created

    Louis Pasteur
  • X-ray (Wilhelm Roentgen

    X-ray (Wilhelm Roentgen

    helped doctors see inside the body to see what is wrong with a patient

  • Isolated radium- Marie Curie

  • Penicillin was discovered- Sir Alexander Fleming

    Penicillin was discovered- Sir Alexander Fleming

  • Penicillin was discovered- Alexander Fleming

  • Great Depression

  • Polio vaccine was developed

  • Jonas Salk discovered an altered polio virus vaccine

  • Albert Sabin created the oral polio vaccine

  • Christian Barnard

    performed the workld's first heart transplant surgery

  • First "test tube baby" Louise Brown

  • AID was named

    AID was named

  • Aids was announced to the public

  • 9/11