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Period: 200 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Sep 9, 1500
Middle Ages
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Middle Age barbers cut more than hair
Barber surgeons performed surgery to treat cataracts or perform blood letting. Blood letting was a process of draining out the unclean or diseased blood out of a persons body. -
575
Barber poles became more popular and symbolic
After operation they put bloody bandages on a pole for advertisment. By wind it fromed red and white spirals around the pole. That was later painted on the pole in front of the barber shops and just stuck throughout the ages. -
Jan 1, 700
Regulation of medical care began in Middle Ages
Physicians were licensed after formal training with an experienced doctor. Physicans learned by reading books and being trained by othe doctors so not just anyone could be a doctor. -
Jan 1, 1300
Hospitals in the Muslim World
Relgious teaching based on Koran taught followers social resposibility like the rich providing healthcare to poor. Each hospitals had separate wards for different illnesses. -
Jan 1, 1325
Christian monasteries were founded to treat sick and needy
Christian teachings encouraged followers to help sick and needy. Local healers usually women served as monasteries. Treatment sometimes was just prayer and rest. -
Jan 1, 1400
Women were not allowed to be doctors
French woman Jacoba Felicie was tried for practicing medicine without a license. She tried to explain the women could also be doctors but was found gulity and not allowed to practice medicine ever. -
Period: Sep 9, 1400 to
The Renaissance
The Renaissance -
Sep 9, 1467
Inventing the Microscope
Microscopes allowed doctors to make more accurate observations of patients and symtoms. They could look and see diseases under microscope and get better observations. -
Sep 9, 1500
Invention of the printing press
This invention made it easier to publish books and papers about medical reasearch. Information and discoveries spread faster. -
The scientific method came to use in Europe
It was a major change in the way people thought about medicine and research. The sceintific method was used to acquire new knowledge using observation and note taking. -
Robert Hooke
He built one of the first reflecting microscopes. That made observation easier. -
Age of Enlightenment
A philosophical movement that studied human anatomy. These investigations were forbidden by church helped correct beliefs. -
Francis Bacon discovers plague fleas
Francis Bacon discovered plagued fleas by a microscope. The plagues fleas caused illness that spread throughout Europe. -
Stethoscope was invented
The stethoscope was invented which was used to hear peoples heart beats and breathing. -
Edward Jenner Vaccination
He began the first vaccination process ever when he began inoculating people with the fluid from cowpox blisters. -
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The Industrial Revolution
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The Bubonic plague
The bubonic plague or black death hit San Franciso. This plague wiped out thousands of Europeans and many more invovled with the Europeans. -
John Snow cholera
John Snow stopped the outbreak of cholrea which is a bacterial disease of the small intestine. -
Robert Koch pathogens
Robert Koch discovered that pathogens which are disease-producing microorganisms, -
Louis Pasteur Microbiology
Louis Pasteur carried out experiments that became the basis for modern microbiology which deals with the study of microorganisms. -
Joseph Lister Medical asepsis
Joseph Lister insisted using soap to disinfect instruments and clean hands before doctors moved to another patient. Today we call this medical asepsis. -
Alexander Flemming Penicillin Modern Times
Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin which is still used today as an antibiotic -
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The discovery of organs transplants, MRI, CT scans, and x-rays
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Antibiotics Modern Times
Antibiotics were invented. Antibiotics create anitbodies that fight and stop infection. -
AZT used to combat HIV Modern Times
AZT was used to combat HIV, AZT is an anit HIV drug that reduces the amount of HIV in the body. -
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The Modern World
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Steve Thomas Sterile Maggots
Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment. The maggots ate away the infected wound and left it clean and new. -
First FDA approved heart implant
The first FDA approved artifical heart implant was used in a patient. The patient got the heart on June 24 and died August 23. -
Rhazes discovered the differences between smallpox and measles
A Persian doctor Rhazes discovered the differences between smallpox and measles. He played a role in development of medicine by building hippocrates.
