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400
Greeks (B.C.E)
Began study of disease
Hippocrates-code of ethics-Hippocratic Oath:Code of Behavoir, Natural explanations, Clincal observation -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark/Middle Ages
study of med science stopped over 1,000 years
med practiced only in monasteries & convents
used herbal medicine, many plagues & epidemics (bubonic) -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renaissance
Rebirth of Science: Medical practice, med schools, printing press became information superhighway -
Jan 1, 1500
Andreas Vesalius & Leonardo Da Vinci
(sixteenth & seventeenth centuries) dissected human bodies & made the 1st anatomical drawings. -
Rene Laennec
invented stethoscope (eighteenth century) -
First Mercury Thermometer
Invented by Gabriel Fahrenheit -
Revolutionary War
U.S securing independence from Great Britain -
Edward Jenner
developed a vaccine for smallpox -
Joseph Lister
(Nineteenth & twentieth Centuries) 1st doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision -
First Female Doctor
Elizabeth Blackwell, first to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing -
Florence Nightengale
Founder of modern nursing -
Louis Pasteur
Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria -
Civil War Starts
fought between southern & northern states, south didn't want to be part of U.S & decided to make their own country. North wanted to stay one country. -
Gregory Mendel
Established patterns of heredity -
Ignaz Semmelweiss
died from a cut during an autopsy, identifed cause of maternal infections & instituted hand washing -
Robert Koch
developed culture plate method to identify pathogens -
Clara Barton
Founded the American Red Cross -
Discovery of x-rays
disovered by Wilhelm Roentgen, allowed doctors to see inside the body to discover what was wrong with the patient -
Marie Curie
Isolated radium -
WWI
Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the United States, and other allies defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria. -
Influenza 1918
killed 675,000-more than all the wars of this century combined -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin -
WW2
German invasion of Poland, and ending with the surrender of Germany1945, and of Japan on Aug. 14, 1945. -
Jonas Salk
Developed the polio vaccine -
World's First Heart Transplant Surgery
Performed by Christian Barnard
