Medical Investigations

  • Period: 200 to

    History of Medicine

  • 500

    Barber Surgeon

    A barber would have also been your surgeon and pulled your teeth. They also amputated soilders.
  • Period: 500 to Sep 9, 1400

    Middle Ages

  • Sep 11, 1300

    Religion in healthcare

    People still believed that religion played a huge part about your health.
  • Sep 14, 1300

    Hospitals

    There are now scores of hospitals in the Muslim world.
  • Sep 14, 1302

    Christian Churches

    Many monasteries were founded for the sick, usually it was local women who worked at the monasteries. Otherwise your treatment was rest and prayers.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    Women were still not able to be Nurses

    Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is deined.
  • Period: Sep 9, 1500 to

    Renaissance Ages

  • Scientific Method

    Doctors starts using the scientific method in Europe. Now instead of guessing they can think of real causes for illness.
  • Microscope

    Robert Hooke built one of the first feflecting microscopes.
  • Printpress

    They can now produce publication of new discoveries.
  • Anronie van Leeuwenhoak

    She decribed bacteria
  • Francis Bacon

    Used a microscope to discover plague fleas.
  • Human Anatomy

    These investaigations were forbidden in the past by churches, but the helped correct many beliefs
  • Discovery of capillaries

    Doctiors knew that blood circulated through circulated through large vessels, but didnt know how blood circulated throughout the body. This was explained by the discovery of capillaries.
  • Vaccinations

    An English doctor named Edward Jenner dixcovered milkmiads exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox. They started putting the fluid from coxpox blisters in people this started vaccinations.
  • Period: to

    industrial revolution

  • Louis Pasteur

    He carried out expirments that became the basis for modern microbology.
  • Pathogens

    Robert Koch discovered pathogens also know as disease-producing microorganism.
  • Washing Hands

    He insisted we wash instruments with carbolic soap to disinfect them and do clwan hands before moving to the next patient.
  • Indroduction of machines

    The intrioduction on machines allowed new diganostic tools such as the stethscope.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Advances in engineering

    Antibiotics were invented,radium used for cancer treatment, x-rays gained importance in nonivasive diganoses.
  • Salk

    He discovered a polio vaccine.
  • Organ Transplants

    Organ Transplants are now common and are safe.
  • in virto fertalization

    Now infertile couples may have childern
  • CT scan and MRI

    The devolpment of CT scans, MRI, and ultrosound or sonographic imaging has improved diagnostics and treatment for many dieases.
  • Small Pox vs. Measles

    A Pwesian doctor namd Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. He wrote about his findings.
  • Medical Care Regulations

    Physicians were now licensed after formal traniing. They learned by other experienced doctoers and books.