Galen played a role in the development of tracheotomy
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
Feb 8, 900
Difference between smallpox and measles
Nov 6, 1300
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
Mar 18, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but gets denied
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
The use of scientific method begins
Printing press allows for publication of discoveries
Human anatomical studies allowed
Robert Hooke created the reflective mircoscope
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
Louis Pasteur (microbiology) - pasteurization of milk
Robert Koch discovery of pathogens
Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing
Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity
Period: to
Modern World
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
First HMO insurance
Salk discovers polio vaccine
Managed heal care; growth in insurance
WHO declares smallpox eradicated
Period: to
21st Century
Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
MIPPA (Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act) MIPPA provides incentives for practitioners who use electric health records and e-prescribing
The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient
