History of Medicine

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  • Period: 500 to 1300

    The middle ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    He discovered the difference between measles and smallpox.
  • Medical care was regulated
    1140

    Medical care was regulated

    You couldn't practice medicine without a license.
  • Montpellier Medical school founded
    1289

    Montpellier Medical school founded

    Anyone who had a medical license could teach there.
  • 1300

    Islamic hospitals

    health care for sick people
  • 1300

    Barbers doubling as doctors or dentists

    They could preform bloodletting and other procedures
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1400

    French woman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied

  • Use of scientific method begins

  • Microscope Invented

    Microscope Invented

    Allowed for the study of microscopic organisms.
  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria

    Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria

  • Francis Bacon finds plague using a microscope

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • First vaccination discovered

    By Edward Jenner
  • Stethoscope invented

    Stethoscope invented

  • Important of hand washing is brought forward

    Important of hand washing is brought forward

  • John Snow stops outbreak of Cholera

  • Joseph Lister

    Practice medical sepsis
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • HMO insurance

  • CAT CT scan invented

  • Smallpox eradicated

    Smallpox eradicated

  • Human genome released to public

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    Used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment.
  • Gardasil approved by FDA

    Gardasil approved by FDA

    Vaccine to prevent cervical cancer

  • MIPPA

    Provided incentives for practitioners who use eletronic health records
  • Abiocor placed in a patient

    Abiocor placed in a patient

    first FDA approved artificial heart