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400
The Dark Ages
Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited. -
500
Used Herbal Medicine
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Jan 1, 1400
Rebirth of Science
The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other European intellectual pursuits. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine. -
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope. -
Sir Christopher Wren
The first to administer medications intravenously by means of an animal bladder attached to a sharpened quill. -
William Harvey
Created the first mercury thermometer. -
James Lind
A Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. -
Benjamin Franklin
Invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person. -
Edward Jenner
He invented the vaccination for smallpox (whihch is related to cowpox) -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope. -
Gregory Mendel
Established the patterns of heredity. -
Ignas Semmelweiss
Identified the cause of maternal infections and instituted hand washing. Medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, causing the death of many newborn babies and mothers. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. inspired Florence Nightingale ot pursue nursing. -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered that pasteurizing milk is to kill bacteria. -
Sigmund Freud
Studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body. He determined that teh mind and body work together. His studies were teh basis of psychology and psychiatry. -
Clara Barton
Founded the American Red Cross -
Robert Koch
Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens. -
William Roentgen
Discovered x-rays. -
First vaccine for plague
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Felix Hoffman
Develops aspirin. -
Marie Curie
Isolated radium in 1910 -
Sir Alexand Fleming
Discovered penicillin. -
Jonas Salk
Developed the polio vaccine. -
Christian Barnard
Performed teh world's first heart transplant surgery. -
Rhazes
The first to identify smallpox, as distinguished from measles, and to suggest blood as the cause of infectious disease.
