Med. History

  • Barbers were also surgeons
    500

    Barbers were also surgeons

    they treated cataracts and practiced phlebotomythough performing surgery. They also aided the military through battle.. The striped pole is a symbol of this point in time, each color representing that.
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    middle ages

  • 600

    How did they diagnose diseases

    They used to base diagnoses on the signs and symptoms of disease
  • 800

    licensed physician

    The Arabs started requiring physicans to pass exams and get licenses.
  • small pox and chicken pox
    900

    small pox and chicken pox

    The difference betweem small pox and chicken pox was discovered.
  • 1000

    Realization

    diseases are contagious
  • 1214

    Roger Bacon

    Promoted remidies to cure diseases
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renissance

  • New way of things
    1304

    New way of things

    The dissection of the body allowed better understanding of anatomy and physiology.
  • New way to get things out there
    1350

    New way to get things out there

    The development of the printing press allows knowledge to be spread to others.
  • 1365

    Roger Bacon

    He brought up how digestion is a source of heat for the body.
  • circulatory system michael servetus
    1511

    circulatory system michael servetus

    Servetus second guessed Galen's model of physiology in which blood was produced by the liver and consumed by the body. He argued that blood became mixed with air and therefore spirit in the lungs.
  • De Humani Corporis Fabrica
    1543

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    The first anatomy book published by Andreas Vesalius which revolutionized the study of human anatomy.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Joseph LIster and medical asepsis

    He recommended that doctors cleaned the equipment and washed their hands before performing each operation.
  • introduction to machines

    introduction to machines

    Great changes were caused by machinery, and economic changes helped progress with medicine. Diagnostic tools were made such as micros.
  • Bubonic plague

    Bubonic plague

    San Francisco is hit by the Bubonic Plague
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Discovery of Penicillin

    Discovery of Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin while experimenting with bacteria on dishes. He later received a Nobel Prize in medicine.
  • organ transplants discovered

    organ transplants discovered

    The kidney was the first successful transplant. Later the heart, liver, and pancreas were preformed.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • building

    building

    3D printing is a new way to build thing for the body when it cant be given when needed so you can 3D print it.
  • Gene Therapy

    the first gene therapy trial was succesed
  • The bionic eye

    The bionic eye

    The bionic eye give you artifical vision