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Jan 1, 1440
Invention of Printing Press
the Inventing of a printing press made it easier to make copies of medical notes and data -
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French Revolution
Social/ Political Event: French Revolution
With the people getting injured more people had to get healed and so and advance of medicine was needed -
Invention of the Stethescope
Rene Laennec developed the Stethescope. -
Invention of Mechanical Computer
the inventing of computers helped advance medicine by creating a faster/ easier way to take medical notes and data -
The Beginning of Anesthesia
made surgery easier -
The First Hysterectomy
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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease
Louis Pasteur -
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American Civil War
Social/ Political event: American Civil War
everyone getting injured needed an advance to heal more people faster -
First Docter to use Antiseptic
Joseph Lister -
Founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton -
First contact lenses developed
(Not correct date but correct year)
Leonardo De Vinci is credited for introducing the idea. -
Invention of the x-ray
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen accidentally discovered this. -
First Airplane
Social/Political Event:
Theh making of the airplane changed medicine because it made it easier to transfer supplies and the injured whether in war or to and from makers of supplies -
Typhoid Mary
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System of Blood Typing developed
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Model T
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the Model T was an affordable car that made it easier to transfer patients and supplies -
Diptheria Vaccine
Vaccine for deadly upper respatory disease. -
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World War I
Social/ political event: world war 1
the soliders getting injured needed more doctors and nurses looking after them and a advance in medicine to heal them faster -
Spanish Influenza
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First use of Insulin to treat Diabetes
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The Iron Lung
Creathed for patients with respiratory paralysis from polio by Drinker and Shaw -
Discovery of Penicillin
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National Council of Negro Women
Social/Political Events:
National Council of Negro Women, a coalition of black women's groups that lobbies against job discrimination, racism, and sexism.
so that African American Women could have any job they want even in medicine -
Development of the “Ham Test”
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare but serious blood disorder -
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World War II
Political/ Social Event: World War 2
with all the soldiers getting injured there had to be an advance in medicine in order to heal the injured faster. -
World Health Organization Forms
Previously’ the League of Nations Health Organization had been developed; however, it had been ineffective due to World War II -
Treating Childhood Leukemia
Sidney Farber reported promising results in treatment of early childhood leukemia. -
Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Gibbon, who was training to be a surgeon, experimented first with cats: working in a Boston lab -
Cat Scratch Fever
cat scratch fever, apparently caused by a cat bite or scratch and characterized by fever, rash, and enlargement of lymph nodes -
Polio Vaccine devoloped
Jonas Salk -
Restarting the Heart
one of the pioneers in the development of the cardiac pacemaker and defibrillator — and his colleagues describe the first application of a transthoracic pacemaker to patients whose hearts had stopped beating. -
First Transplant
The first successful human kidney transplant was performed by Joseph Murray and David Hume at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston -
Invention of the Birth Control Pill
made by Gregory Pincus -
Equal Pay Act
Social/Political Event:
That men and women would get the same amout of pay for doing the same job; even in medicine -
The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation
an ad hoc committee at Harvard Medical School, chaired by Henry Beecher, suggested revising the definition of death in a way that would make some patients with devastating neurologic injury suitable for organ transplantation under the “dead donor rule.” -
Monitoring Hemoglobin A1c in Diabetes
Koenig and colleagues were the first to demonstrate the utility of glycosylated hemoglobin A1c concentration as a monitor of the degree of serum glucose control in patients with diabetes -
The World’s First Test Tube Baby
Edwards and Dr. Patrick Steptoe managed to achieve the first IVF pregnancy that successfully resulted in a live birth (of Louise Brown). -
The Artificial Heart
Dr. William DeVries performed the first implantation of a permanent artificial heart. The patient, a 61-year-old man with end-stage congestive heart failure -
Breast Cancer, BRCA1 and BRCA2
Marie-Claire King’s lab discovered the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 in the early 1990s; the discovery of BRCA2 soon followed.It was shown that breast or ovarian cancer will develop in most women who have one of these genes. -
9/11
Social/ Political Events:
Made all security highereven in hospitals -
The Beginning of the End for Cervical Cancer
100% efficacy in reducing the incidence of HPV-16-related cervical cancer nearly 1.5 years after completion of the vaccination regimen.
