History of Medicine

  • 200

    Galen

    Tracheotomy
  • 500

    Greek Roots

    Greek Roots
    The practice of medicine in the middle ages was root from Greek traditions
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the different between and smallpox
  • 1300

    Islamic Hospital

    Heath care for the sick
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renasisance

  • 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    Tries to practice medicine but is denied
  • Renasisance

    use of scientific methods in beginning
  • Microscope evented

    Allowed for study of microscopic organisms
  • Robert Hooke

    reflective microscope
  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

    describes bacteria
  • Francis Bacon

    use microscope to discover plague fleas
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    discoverers 1st vaccination
  • Robert Koch

    discovers pathogens
  • Ignaz Sernmmelweis

    Shows importance of hand washing
  • John Snow

    stops outbreak of cholera
  • Joseph Lister

    Practice of medical asepsis
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming

    Discovers pencillin
  • First HMO insurance

  • Salk

    discovers polio vaccine
  • ATZ

    used to combat aids
  • Modern World

    Managed heath care growth is uninsured
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Tomas

    Used sterile maggots for infected wounds
  • Gardasil

    a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA