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Period: 365 to
Medical HIstory
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400
Greeks BC
Began the study of disease -
500
Egyptians BC
earliest people to keep accurate records. Identified some specific disease, and used medicine to heal disease, and splinted fracture which we still use today -
Oct 1, 1000
Dark and Middle Ages; AD
Medicines only practice in monastaries and convents. The study of medicine stopped for a 1,000 years. Used herbal medicine. Plagues broke out.
-bubonic -small pox
-tuberculosis -
Oct 2, 1018
Michael Psellos
Michael Psellos or Psellus a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian. several books on medicine -
Oct 2, 1242
Ibn an-Nafis
Ibn an-Nafis suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation -
Oct 1, 1400
Renaissance
Rebirth of science, medical schools were built. Study of cody dissections. -
Oct 1, 1400
Mid-wifes
First recorded regulations for mid-wifes -
Oct 1, 1439
Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. It helped copy medical information. -
Oct 2, 1553
MIguel Serveto
Miguel Serveto describes the circulation of blood through the lungs. -
Oct 1, 1564
Andreas Vesalius and Leonardo DeVinci
Founders of modern anamoty. Because of them we now know whats inside of us and it has enhanced our knoweledge -
Chinese
Used acupuncture to relieve pain during congestion -
Civil War
First dedicated military hospital is established in Savory Hospital London -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Created the first mercury thermometer -
James Lind
James Lind , a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. -
First law requiring medical licence
The New Jersey Medical Society was the first organization in the colonies. -
Edward Jenner, smallpox vaccine
One day Edward was studying a milk woman who was milking a cow when he noticed she had cow pox that you get from cows. Smallpox was very common in those days so he started to wonder why most milk woman had not caught it yet? So he decided to test it on someone . he found a little boy just 8 and a bit years old and he agreed to help him. He deliberately gave him cow pox and the boy was ill with cow pox but he got better quickly . next he gave him some pus out of a small pox boil to see if he caug -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
James Blundell
James Blundell performs the first successful human blood transfusion -
New Epidemic Fever
A military fever broke out known as Scarlet Fever,
cause strep, fever, swollen tonsils -
Igna Semmelweiss
Identified the cause of maternal infections and instituded handwashing. Medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, causing death of many newborn babies and mothers. -
Louis Pastuer
Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms cause disease and discovered that heating milk prevented growth of bacteria -
Florence Nightingal
Started the first school of nursing during the Crimean War and made nursing an honorable profession. -
Understanding of the Brain
C.E. Brown-Sequard proposed the then-revolutionary idea that one cerebral hemisphere can influence both sides of the body. -
Joseph Lister
First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery to prevent infections in the incision -
First aids identified
the first identification of AIDS -
Romans
Began public health and sanitation system -
Clara Barton
Founded The Red Cross -
Robert Koch
Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens -
Elizabeth Blackwell
She was the first woman to qualify and a doctor in the U.S. -
William Roentgen
Discovered X-rays. -
Romans
First bathed -
Karl Landsteiner
He identified the major blood types A, B, O, and AB -
Marie Curie isolated radium
Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolate radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris -
Rhazes
An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material -
Micro surgeries
Is surgery on minute body structures or cells performed with the aid of microscope and other specialized instruments, such as a micromanipulator -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin -
William Kolff
Created first mechanical heart -
During and After WWI
In Britain, the biggest change was the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) that provided free medical care for all regardless of wealth. Prior to this those who could not afford something like a penicillin jab had to go without or make the necessary sacrifices to get the necessary money. The NHS provided this for free. Vaccine for polio -
Jonas Salk
Developed the polio vaccine -
Margaret Sanger
Dicovered the first birth control pill -
Albert Sabin
Created the oral polio vaccine, Which was more effective then Salk's vaccine -
Christian Behard
Performed the worlds first heart transplant surgery. -
Gene Mapping
Refers to the mapping of genes to specific locations on chromosomes -
Advance scope surgery
The big advantage of this new technique is that there is no need to make large incisions. -
Tissue Cloning
The process of creating an identical copy of an original. -
Great Britian(Lois Brown)
She was the first test tube baby -
Advanced body imaging
Diagonstic and screening medical prodcedures specifically developed to promote health and wellness -
Gene Therapy
The insertion of genes into an individuals calls and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary disease in particular. -
Galen Clark AD
Galen studies the connection between paralysis and severance of the spinal cord. considered by many to be the most important contributor to medicine following Hippocrates -
Rhazes
Figured out the difference between small pox and measals
