History of Medicine

By taylorhuebner9
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark Ages

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Study of the Body by Dissection

    During the Renaissance it was legal to study the body by dissection, A lot of times, criminals would be sentenced to death by dissection as their death punishment. Doctors and scientists wanted to see how the body worked while it was still functioning so sometimes they did the dissections on a live patient. This allowed them to see a functioning body and then how the organs stopped as the person died. Dissection gave us a lot of insight as to how the organs and the systems of the body worked.
  • The printing press was invented
    Jan 1, 1450

    The printing press was invented

    The printing press made it easier for medical information to be recorded and shared.

  • Invention of the Microscope

    Anton Von-Leeuwenoek invented the first microscope and because of this was able to see and study micro-bacteria. He is known as "The Father of Microbiology".

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first Mercury Thermometer

  • Edward Jenner discovered the vaccination for smallpox

    Edward Jenner discovered the vaccination for smallpox

  • Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals

    Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals

  • Invention of the Stethoscope

    Invention of the Stethoscope

    Rene Laennec was the inventor of the stetoscope.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale pursue nursing

  • Florence Nightingale opened the first school of nursing

    Florence Nightingale opened the first school of nursing

  • Louis Pasteur began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria

  • Joseph Lister began using antiseptics during surgury

    Antiseptics prevent infection in the incision.
  • Period: to

    Robert Koch

    Robert Koch is known as the "Father of Microbiology". He discovered many disease-causing organisms- anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera.
  • Clara Barton established the American Red Cross

    Clara Barton established the American Red Cross

  • Louis Pasteur discovered the rabies vaccine

  • Willhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895

  • Radium was isolated and studied by Marie Curie

    Radium was isolated and studied by Marie Curie

  • Inculin was first used to treat Diabetes

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin

  • Jonas Salk discovered the polio virus vaccine

  • Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant

  • Louise Brown was born

    Louise Brown was born

    Louise Brown was the first intro-fertilization born baby. "Test tube baby"

  • AIDS is officailly named

  • Ronald Regan makes first announcement to the american public about AIDS

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