Medical Investigations

  • 200

    Galen; Tracheotomy

  • Period: 200 to

    History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Sep 9, 1500

    MIddle Ages

  • Sep 9, 1000

    Meddical Care Becomes regualted

    Physicians were licensed after formal trailning.
  • Sep 9, 1300

    Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick

    Religious instruction based on the Qur'an taught followers social responsibilities.
  • Sep 9, 1350

    Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill

    Local healers, who were ofter women served at the monasteries to help treat the sick.
  • Sep 9, 1400

    Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practive medicne but is denied

  • Period: Sep 9, 1500 to

    Renaissance

  • Use of scientific method begins

    The Scientific method changed the way people thought about medicine and research
  • Printing press is created

    Printing press helps get lots of informaton out to the people faster
  • Robert Hooke- Reflective telescope

    The reflective telescope allowed more accurate oberservations of patients and symptoms.
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria

  • Freancis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner discovers first vaccination

  • Louis Pastur (microbiology) discovers the pasteurizarion of milk

  • Joseph Lister practices medical asepsis

  • Robert Koch discovers pathogens

  • John Snow stops outbreak of cholera

  • First HMO issurance

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Flemming Discovers penicillin

  • Salk discovers polio vaccine

  • WHO decalres smallpox eradicated

  • AZT is used to combat aids

    AZT is used to combat AIDS
  • Rhazes dicovered tje differnece between smallpox and measles

    Rhazes dicovered tje differnece between smallpox and measles
    Rhazes works were used until the 1800's. Rhazes played a role in the development of medicine as a science by building on the ideas.