Medical Investigations 1 Timeline By kaileymartinez Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500 Middle Ages Period: 500 to Sep 3, 2015 Medical History Jan 1, 1000 Medical care becomes regulated Jan 1, 1300 Islamic hospitals have health care for the sick Jan 1, 1350 Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill Jan 1, 1400 Jacoba Felicie tried practicing medicine, but was forbidden and denied without license Period: Jan 1, 1501 to Dec 31, 1699 Renaissance Jan 1, 1600 Doctors begin using scientific method Jan 1, 1600 Movement for the sudies of the human anatomy took place Jan 1, 1635 Robert Hooke built first reflecting microscope that allowed doctors to observe things more accurately Jan 1, 1663 Printing press was invented; medical information about new discoveries were printed and spread quickly Jan 1, 1673 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria Period: Jan 1, 1700 to Dec 31, 1909 Industrial Revolution Jan 1, 1749 English doctor Edward Jenner found that milkmaids exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox Jan 1, 1796 Discovery of blood cells Jan 1, 1796 Beginning of practicing vaccinations Jan 1, 1822 Louis Pasteur did experiments that became the basis for modern microbiology Jan 1, 1827 Joseph Lister created the way of disinfecting surgical equipment Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Sep 3, 2015 Modern World Jan 1, 1915 Discovery of organ transplants Jan 1, 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin Jan 1, 1930 First HMO insurance (Health Maintenance Organization) Jan 1, 1980 Manages health care; growth in uninsured Jan 1, 1981 AZT is used to combat AIDS. Mar 2, 2022 Persian doctor Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measels
