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500
Father
The father of medicine is Hippocrates. He is known as the greatest surgeon of all time. When he practiced he based it off of the observations of the human body, and to study just the human body. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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600
Treatment
Most people believed that the main ways to treat things is to pray for many people. Some believed in changing their diet. We now know that it is not the solution for most anything. -
932
Smallpox
The first description of the symptoms for Smallpox were recorded by Rhazes -
1240
Arnaldus de Villa Nova
Arnaldus de Villa Nova was a physician. He also, like most wisemen, was a astrologer. That means a person that read and told people about their future. -
1300
The Black Plague
This was a global epidemic, that resulted in the most horrifying thing ever. This spread like wildfire and impacted tons of people. A lot of people were killed because of this. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1493
Paracelsus
Paracelsus was a physician, alchemist, and an astrologer. He was said to be someone who was involved with many different things within medical. He had big attention into observation along with wisdom -
1500
C-Section
The first ever written record of someone having a c-section with the mother and baby surviving was in the 1500's. Before this was taken place the mother was in labor for multiple days. -
1564
Anderes Vesalius
He is known as the founder of the modern day founder of human anatomy. He is responsible for one of the first anatomy books. -
Apr 1, 1578
William Harvey
This is a famous surgeon in the Renaissance. He is a famous surgeon because of his contributions made to anatomy, and physiology. He was one of the first ones to describe completely systemic circulation. -
Cancer
The earliest stages of cancer was discovered in Ancient Egypt. When people found this out they also found some of the earliest stages the trace back to removal of breast tumors, and cauterization. -
Period: to
Industrail Revolution
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John Hunter
John has made many discoveries in the medical field. He was an early advocate in the medical field. He was a teacher and educator, He helped out a lot to find a vaccine for small pox. -
Hospital
Our nations first hospital was in Pennsylvanian. This is so important because this provided so many jobs. Plus so many people are saved in hospitals. They offer so many different beneficial things. -
Stethoscope
This was invented by a French physician Rene Laennec. The first stethoscope was a long, rolled paper tube to funnel the sound from the patient's chest to Rene's ear. -
Anesthesia
This was the first time that Anesthesia was ever discovered. It was the first time that this was used and it was successful. Knowing that this was discovered before the "Modern Day" lets us know that we will never have to go through the horrific pain that others had to go through at one time. -
Asprin
This pain reliever was made in the 1890s. It is something that has changed medical. So many people use this in order to get better or overcome whatever their intentions are for using it. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Humberto Fernandez- Moran
This was the man that is credited for making the modern day scalpel. This is important because it is an essential when preforming surgery in the operating room. -
Penicillin
Penicillin is used to fight bacteria in your body. This is something that we are glad to have discovered because there is so many things that have been "fixed" with it. -
Organ Transplant
This was such a big thing for the medical field because so many times where someone has passed away from something they have saved more than just one by multiple peoples lives. The kidney was the first organ to be transplanted. -
Heart Transplant
This is when the very first ever heart transplant took place from human to human. This is so remakable because we have saved so many peoples life through this that someone may not have been able to live out there full potential with. -
Cat Scan
The cat scan was invented by a British engineer by the name of Godfrey Hounsfield. This machine is used everyday in hospitals everywhere -
Period: to
21st Century
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Face Transplant
This was the first time that this has ever been done. This happened in France. The person decided to do a face transplant after her face was majorly ravaged by her dog. -
Essential Oils
This became very popular. I put it on the timeline at this date because it has became that doctors have even started recommending. For some people this has became something way cheaper and sometimes healthier than what has been done in the past to try and take care of patients. -
Doctor Mike
This is a doctor that has became very popular in the last couple years through social media. He makes a lot of videos to help answer questions that people have to do with overall health. I think that it is a good thing to put on here because he is turning social media into a learning area for some people -
CBD
This is something that we have had for a long time but it became very popular recently. This has became very popular because people are starting to find ways in which this helps out with multiple different things. -
Robots
Robots is something that is new and still in the process of being done and successful. These robots are used for the surgical. It is said to do what ever the surgeon does on the other side to the side that they are on
