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Beginning of the Dark and Middle Ages
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History of Medicine and Medical discoveries.
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The Start of the Renaissance
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The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other european intellectual pursuits. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine.
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Made books possible and knowledge was shared, was "information superhightway" of its day.
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dissected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings. these helped in understanding the organs and systems of the human body.
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Described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.
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The end of the Renaissance
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Invented the microscope
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Vaccination for smallpox (which is related to cowpox)
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Invention of the stethoscope
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Identified the cause of maternal infections and institued hand wa shing. Medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, causing the death of many newborn babies and mothers. he died from a cut during an autopsy
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She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.
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"Angel of the Battlefield" She established the American Red Cross.
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First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision.
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Started the first school of nursing during the Crimean War and made nursing an honorable profession.
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"Father of Microbiology", he discovered many disease-causing organisms- anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera.
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Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms casued disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria (pasteurization).
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Discovered x-rays, allowed doctors to see insdie the body to discover what was wrong with the patient.
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Stuied the efffects of the unconscous mind on the body. He determined that the mind and body work together. Hist studies were the basic of psychology and psychiatry.
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Discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic. this was considered one of the most important discoveries in the twentieth century.
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Creator of the oral polio vaccine, which was more effective than Salk's vaccine.
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Performed the world's first heart transplant surgery
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First Successful "test tube" baby born in Great Britain.
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The process of creating an identical copy of an original. Dolly the sheep was cloned.
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Insertation of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary disease in particular.
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Diagnostic and screening medical procedures specifically developed to promote health and wellness.
