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500CE-1500CE
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Relgious teaching based on Koran taught followers social resposibility like the rich providing healthcare to poor. Each hospitals had separate wards for different illnesses.
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Christian teachings encouraged followers to help sick and needy. Local healers usually women served as monasteries. Treatment sometimes was just prayer and rest.
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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.
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The Renaissance
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Microscopes allowed doctors to make more accurate observations of patients and symtoms. They could look and see diseases under microscope and get better observations.
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This invention made it easier to publish books and papers about medical reasearch. Information and discoveries spread faster.
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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.
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He built one of the first reflecting microscopes. That made observation easier.
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A philosophical movement that studied human anatomy. These investigations were forbidden by church helped correct beliefs.
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Francis Bacon discovered plagued fleas by a microscope. The plagues fleas caused illness that spread throughout Europe.
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The stethoscope was invented which was used to hear peoples heart beats and breathing.
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He began the first vaccination process ever when he began inoculating people with the fluid from cowpox blisters.
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The bubonic plague or black death hit San Franciso. This plague wiped out thousands of Europeans and many more invovled with the Europeans.
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John Snow stopped the outbreak of cholrea which is a bacterial disease of the small intestine.
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Robert Koch discovered that pathogens which are disease-producing microorganisms,
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Louis Pasteur carried out experiments that became the basis for modern microbiology which deals with the study of microorganisms.
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Joseph Lister insisted using soap to disinfect instruments and clean hands before doctors moved to another patient. Today we call this medical asepsis.
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Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin which is still used today as an antibiotic
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Antibiotics were invented. Antibiotics create anitbodies that fight and stop infection.
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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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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment. The maggots ate away the infected wound and left it clean and new.
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The first FDA approved artifical heart implant was used in a patient. The patient got the heart on June 24 and died August 23.
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A Persian doctor Rhazes discovered the differences between smallpox and measles. He played a role in development of medicine by building hippocrates.
