Medical History by 009043

Romans

200

(BC)
Ceasarian and external surgery in practise.

Romans

500

(BC)
Midwifery and surgical equipment developed.

Romans

520

(AD)
DEveloped ideas about bad air and tiny creatures being the cause of disease. Captured Greek soldiersand civilians were often the doctors including Galen a very famous Greek doctor.

Romans

560

(AD)
Developed hospitals

Medieval/Middle ages

Aug 7, 1000

(AD)
The first internal operation ever!!!!
Very unhygienic though!!

Medieval/Middle Ages

Jun 21, 1430

(AD)
Bleeding their patients using leeches and vomiting in their patients was a common medical practise. Nice!!!

Renaisance

Jul 5, 1769

(AD)
Laudunam is used as a painkiller which became addictive. Edward Jenner discovers the vaccination.

19th century

Feb 27, 1842

(AD)
Crawford W Long (America) used ether as an anaesthetic while operating on a neck tumour.

19th century

Jul 30, 1847

(AD)
James Simpson (Britain) discovered chloroform.

19th Century

Oct 22, 1847

(AD)
Ignaz Semmelweiss (Hungary) cut the death rate in his maternity ward by making the doctors wash their hands in calcium chloride solution before treating their patients.

19th Century

Jul 19, 1850

(AD)
Surgeons started boiling their instruments to sterilise them - WS Halstead (America) started using rubber gloves when operating - German surgeons started to use face masks.

19th Century

Jul 19, 1854

(AD)
Standards of hospital cleanliness and nursing care rose rapidly under the influence of Florence Nightingale.

19th Century

Feb 2, 1865

(AD)
Joseph Lister (Scotland) - basing his ideas on Pasteur's Germ Theory cut the death rate among his patients from 46 to 15 per cent by spraying instruments and bandages with a 1-in-20 solution of carbolic acid.

19th Century

May 28, 1884

(AD)
Carl Koller (Germany) discovered that cocaine is a local anaesthetic

19th century

Jul 19, 1884

(AD)
Carl Koller (Germany) discovered that cocaine is a local anaesthetic

20th Century

Dec 22, 1901

(AD)
Carl Landsteiner (Austria) - discovered blood groups. Transfusions had been tried before but usually killed the patient because of clotting. Matching blood groups stopped this happening.

20th Century

Jul 19, 1913

(AD)
Richard Levisohn discovered that sodium citrate stopped blood clotting during an operation

20th Century

Nov 6, 1938

(AD)
The National Blood Transfusion Service was set up in Britain.

1940's

Jul 19, 1940

(AD)
Plastic surgery developed. Also doctors started to cure symptoms rather than actual diseases

Egyptians

Jan 16, 3000

Herbal remedies were in use as an alternative to anaesthetics. External surgery was also being performed.

Egyptians

Jul 19, 4000

(BC)
Practical 1st aid was in practise and bandages were being used. They are officially the first people to use any form of medical care in history.

Egyptians

Sep 27, 4000

(BC)
They were able to relocate dislocated joints and set broken bones.