Med Investigations

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  • Galen clarified the anatomy of the trachea and was the first to demonstrate that the larynx generates the voice.
    200

    Galen clarified the anatomy of the trachea and was the first to demonstrate that the larynx generates the voice.

  • Period: 200 to

    History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Autopsies start being preformed
    Jan 1, 1100

    Autopsies start being preformed

  • Oxford starts teaching medicine.
    Jan 1, 1167

    Oxford starts teaching medicine.

  • Islamic Hospitals are formed to help the sick
    Jan 1, 1300

    Islamic Hospitals are formed to help the sick

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Black Plague spreads through killing an estimated 25 million
    Jan 1, 1350

    Black Plague spreads through killing an estimated 25 million

  • Jocaba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied because she's a woman
    Jan 1, 1400

    Jocaba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied because she's a woman

  • Use of Scientific Method Begins

    Use of Scientific Method Begins

  • Robert Hooke creates many of the earliest refective microscopes

    Robert Hooke creates many of the earliest refective microscopes

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek starts studying microbiology and bacteria

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek starts studying microbiology and bacteria

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner discovers first vaccination

    Edward Jenner discovers first vaccination

  • Louis Pasteur invented the pasteurization of milk.

    Louis Pasteur invented the pasteurization of milk.

  • Robert Koch discovers pathogens

    Robert Koch discovers pathogens

  • Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of handwashing

    Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of handwashing

  • John Snow stops the outbreak of Cholera

    John Snow stops the outbreak of Cholera

  • Marie Curie discovers the science of radioactivity

  • Bubonic Plague hits San Francisgo

    Bubonic Plague hits San Francisgo

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • First medical insurance policies are constructed

    First medical insurance policies are constructed

  • Salik discovers polio vaccines

    Salik discovers polio vaccines

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • azidothymidine is used to combat aids.

  • Sterile Maggots are used by Steve Thomas to treat infectious wounds

  • Gardasil, a medicine used to prevent cervical cancer is approved by the FDA

    Gardasil, a medicine used to prevent cervical cancer is approved by the FDA

  • First FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart pleaced in a patient.

  • World Health Organization declares smallpox is eradicated.

    World Health Organization declares smallpox is eradicated.

  • Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles

    Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles