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200
Galen
First Tracheotomy by Galen -
200
Barber
Barber-surgeons cut hair, perform surgery; barber pole symbol popularized -
Period: 200 to
History of the Medical Field
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Period: 500 to Sep 10, 1500
Middle ages
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Sep 10, 1000
Abulcasis
Abulcasis establishes surgery as a profession. -
Sep 10, 1021
Alhazen
Alhazen wrote the Book of Optics. This book advances the field opthalmology and eye surgery. -
Sep 10, 1100
Avenzoar
Avenzoar performs human dissections and autopsy. Also performs a tracheotomy and identifies scabies as a parasite. -
Sep 10, 1180
Roger Frugardi
Roger Frugardi composes his Treatise on Surgery. This changes surgery as a craft and raises its status. -
Sep 5, 1300
Islamic Hospital
Islamic hostpitals, health care for the sick -
Sep 10, 1300
Arnald of Vilanova
Arnald of Vilanova advises that pain is relevant in diagnoses. For most medical doctors, the main reason to study pain was to develop a tool for a better diagnosis. -
Sep 5, 1302
Christian monasteries
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill -
Sep 5, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied -
Sep 8, 1493
Paracelsus
Paracelsus started on the relationship between medicine and surgery. Surgery Book -
Sep 5, 1500
Anatomy
Human anatomical studies allowed -
Period: Sep 10, 1500 to
Renaisance
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Stopping bleeding
Silk threads would be used to tie up the arteries of amputated limbs to try and stop the bleeding. -
Scientific Method
Use of the scientific method begins -
William Harvey
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 -
Printing Press
Printing press allows for publication of discoveries. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke- reflective microscope -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Discovery
Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination. -
Louis Pastuer
Louis Pastuer (microbiology) pasteurization of milk (1822-1895) -
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister- practice of medical aspesis. (1827-1912) -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens. (1843-1910) -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing. -
John Snow
John Snow stops outbreak of cholera. -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity. (1897-1904) -
Bubonic
Bubonic plague hits San Francisco. (1900-1909) -
Discovery
Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, Cat scans. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. (1928-1945) -
HMO
First HMO insurance. (1930-1960) -
Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian synthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis. -
Salk
Salk discovers polio vaccine. -
WHO
WHO declares smallpox eradicated. -
Health Care
Managed health care; growth in uninsured. (1980-1998) -
AZT
AZT is used to combat AIDS. (1981-1986) -
Rhazes
Rhazes discovered difference between smallpoz and measlses -
Medical care
Medical care becomes regulated -
Diseases
Seperates smallpox from measles and suggests that blood causes infectious diseaes
