History of Medicine

By ayanabrown
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
  • 900

    Medical care became regulated

  • Islamic hospitals were made
    1300

    Islamic hospitals were made

  • 1300

    Christian monasteries were founded to treat the ill

  • 1400

    Jacoba Felicie (Frenchwoman)

    tries to practice medicine but is denied
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Use of scientific method begins

  • Human anatomical becomes allowed

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    reflective microscope

  • printing press allows publication of discoveries

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    describes bacteria
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    discovered the 1st vaccination

  • discovery of cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Louis Pasteur

    pasteurization of milk
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Marie Curie

    discovers science of radioactivity
  • Bubonic plague hits San Francisco

    Bubonic plague hits San Francisco

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming

    discovers penicillin

  • first HMO insurance

  • Salk

    Salk

    discovers polio vaccine

  • managed health care ; growth in uninsured

  • AZT is used to combat AIDS

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    uses sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
  • Gardasil

    Gardasil

    a vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA

  • embryonic stem cells

    scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells

  • MIPPA

    provides incentives for practitioners who use electronic health records and e-prescribing
  • FDA approved implanted AbioCar artificial heart

    FDA approved implanted AbioCar artificial heart

    first implanted AbioCar artificial heart was placed inside a patient on June 24, the patient dies on August 23