Medical HIstory

By taylornicole45
  • Galen
    200

    Galen

    Physcician to the gladiators during the second century. He used his skills as a surgeon to treat them
  • Barbers
    200

    Barbers

    Barbers and surgeons cut peoples hair and perfom surgeries. The barber pole is a symbol for this type of work.
  • Period: 200 to Sep 5, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Sep 8, 1000

    Chrisitan monasteries founded to treat the ill

  • Sep 8, 1000

    Medical care becomes regulated

    Patients must be treated for anything and everything regardless of payment methods.
  • Sep 8, 1300

    Islamic hospitals: health care for the sick

  • Jacoba Felicie
    Sep 8, 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but it declined
  • Period: Sep 8, 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • THE RENAISSANCE
    Sep 8, 1500

    THE RENAISSANCE

    Printing press allows for publication of discoveries and human anatomial allowed
  • Use of scientific method begins

    Use of scientific method begins

    OHECA
    Observation
    Hypothesis
    Experiment
    Conclusion
    Analysis

  • Human anatomical studies allowed

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Discovered the reflective mircroscope that is used to see small particles of bacteria

  • Printing press allows for publication of discoveries

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek decribes bacteria

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek decribes bacteria

    Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch tradesman and scientist. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist

  • Francis Bacon uses micrscope to discover plague fleas.

  • Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination

  • INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

    Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Louis Pasteur

    1822-1895
    Loius Pasteur (microbiology) pasteurization of milk.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    1827-1912
    Joseph Lister practice of medical asaepals

  • Robert Koch

    1843-1910
    Robert Koch discovery of pathogens

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing

  • John Snow

    John Snow steps outbreak of cholera

  • Marie Curie

    1897-1904
    Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity

  • Bubonic Plague

    1900-1909
    Bubonic Plague hits San Fransisco

  • Alexander Fleming

    1928-1945
    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • HMO insurance

    1930-1960
    First HMO insurance

  • Salk

    Salk discovers polio vaccine

  • Smallpox

    WHO declares smallpox eradicated

  • Healthcare

    1980-1998
    Managed healthcare; growth in uninsured.

  • AZT vs. AIDS

    1981-1986
    AZT is used to combat AIDS
  • Period: to

    Modern Times

  • THE MODERN WORLD

    Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, CAT scans.

  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Gardasil

    Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA

  • MIPPA

    (Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act) MIPPA provides incentives for practitioners who use elctronic health records and e-prescribing.

  • Discovery

    Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells

  • FDA

    The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24. Patient died on August 23
  • Rhazes .

    Rhazes .

    Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.