Medical History

  • 200

    MIddle Ages

    Galen; tracheotomy
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    The MIddle Ages

    Began to replace people's beliefs in spirtiual or superstitious causes for illnesses
  • Sep 8, 1300

    Middle Age

    Islamic Hospitals; health care for the sick
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance

    things began to expand much faster, books were published faster, and information about discoveries were spread quicklier
  • Sep 8, 1400

    MIddle Age

    Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
  • Sep 8, 1400

    MIddle age

    Medical care becomes regulated
  • Sep 10, 1543

    Renaissance

    Girolamo Fabrizio identified the valves of the heart.
  • Renaissance

    use of scientific method begins
  • Renaissance

    Robert Hooke- Reflective microscope
  • Renaissance

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
  • Renaissance

    Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
  • Industrial Revolution

    Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

    Introduction of new machines.
  • Industrial Revolution

    4 Major diseases of Typhoid outbroke
  • Industrial Revolution

    Cholera resulted in over 50,000 deaths
  • Industrial Revolution

    John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
  • Industrial Revolution

    Bubonic Plague hits San Fransico
  • Modern World

    Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin
  • Modern World

    first HMO insurance
  • Modern World

    Salk discovers polio vaccine
  • Modern World

    Managed health care; growth in uninsured
  • Modern World

    AZT is used to combat AIDS
  • Period: to

    Modern Times

    Growth in health care, discoveries in electronics and computer science changed clinical medicine
  • MIddle Age

    Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles