Medical Investication

By KennediRatcliff
  • Period: 200 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middke Ages

  • 400

    Eyes surgrey preformed with a needle

    cataract surgery was performed with a thick needle. The procedure involved pushing the cornea to the back of the eye.
  • Sep 10, 600

    Urine antiseptic

    It wasn't common but there is evidence proving that urine was used as an antiseptic during the middle ages. IT was recommended that all battle wounds should be washed in urine. It was also used in the plague
  • Jan 1, 1300

    Denied medicine practices

    Jacoba Felicie tries to practice madicine but is denied. Jacoba was a French midwife who was brought to trial for practicing medicine without license in a time when women were not allowed to.
  • Period: Sep 10, 1500 to

    Renaissance

  • Heart acts

    William Harvey published his new theory that the heart acts as a muscular pump which circulates blood around the body in the blood vessels.

  • Study of the Heart

    William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart

  • Blood cell discovery

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek makes a discovery of blood cells

  • Bacteria discovery

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria.

  • Appendectomy

    Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • First vaccine ever

    Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox. This was the first vaccine for any disease

  • Stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope. It listens to your heart beat.

  • Nitrous Oxide

    William Morton, a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

  • First women with medical degree

    Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York

  • Germs cause diseases

    Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

  • Surgrey

    Joseph Lister develops the use of antiseptic surgical methods and publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

  • Band Aids

    Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid. Before the bandais they would wrap big wounds in cloth.

  • Diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that affects a persons blood sugar. If not treated it can resoult in death.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Period: to

    Penicilian discovery

    Alexander Flemmings discovers penicilian
  • Period: to

    First HMO insurance

  • polio vacine

    Salk discovers polio. Polio attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system, causing muscle wasting and paralysis and even death. Since 1900 there had been cycles of polio, each seeming to get stronger and more disastrous. The disease had symptoms like the flu at first

  • Smallpox

    Smallpox is eradicated
  • Period: to

    AZT is used to combat aids

  • HIV and AIDS

    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified. It wasnt until the 1970's the virus HIV and AIDS came about

  • hepatitis A

    First vaccine developed for hepatitis A.

  • Cnacer vacine

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Rhazws discovered the difference between smallpox and meassles

    Rhazws discovered the difference between smallpox and meassles He is also known for discovering alcohol and vitriol.

  • Roman Ctholic Churches

    the Roman Catholic Church stated that illnesses were punishments from God and that those who were ill were so because they were sinners, few argued otherwise.Any views different from the established Roman Catholic Church view could