Medical Investigations 1

By rweatherd
  • Period: 500 to

    History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Jan 21, 1000

    Surgery is considered a profession.

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    The Renaissance

  • Jan 23, 1300

    Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick.

  • Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.
    Jan 23, 1350

    Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.

  • Jan 21, 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    This Frenchwoman tries to practice medicine but is denied.
  • Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.

  • Use of scientific method begins.

  • Printing press allows for publication of discoveries.

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria.

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria.

  • Period: to

    The Industrial Revolution

  • Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.

  • Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope.

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    He discovered the 1st vaccination,

  • First painless surgery with general anesthetic.

  • Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing.

    Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing.

  • John Snow stops the outbreak of cholera.

  • X-Ray is used in medicine for the first time.

    X-Ray is used in medicine for the first time.

  • Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity.

  • Period: to

    Modern Times

  • Bubonic plague hits San Francisco.

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

  • John Hopps

    John Hopps

    He invented the first cardiac pacemaker.

  • WHO declares smallpox eradicated.

  • HIV is identified.

  • Ebola

    Ebola

    An outbreak of Ebola spread worldwide, it's origin coming from Africa.
  • Rhazes

    Rhazes

    He discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.

  • Medical care becomes regulated.

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