History of Medicine

  • 500

    Galen

    Galen
    He made they tracheostomy.
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discoved the difference between measies and samllpax.
  • 900

    Smallpoxs and measels

    Contagious and often spread through coughing and sneezing or even coming in contact with an infected person.
  • 1300

    Islamic Hospitals

    Health care for sick.
  • 1300

    Christian Monasteries

    Founded to treat the ill.
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1400

    Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie

    Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie
    She tries to practice medician but is denied.
  • Reflective Microscope

    Allowed study of microoganisms like bacteria.
  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
    He describes bacteria protozoa.The single celled organisms and he called them animalcules.
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    He uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
  • Microscope

    Microscope used to discover pleage fleas and other things we cannot see from human eye.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    He discovered 1st vaccination.
  • HMO

    First HMO(Health Maintaince Organization) insurence is an offerwide range of healthcare service.
  • Importance of hand washing

    First time hand washingwas stated. Hand washing is to help prevent and control the spread of many illnesses.
  • John snow

    John snow
    He stop outbreak of cholera.
  • Stop Outbreak of Cholera

    Cholera requires immediate treatment because the disease can cause death within hours.The goal is to replace lost fluids and electrolytes using a simple rehydration solution, oral rehydration salts.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming
    He discovered a vaccination named penicillin.
  • Discovered organ transplant

    The kidney was the first human organ to be transplanted successfully.
  • AZT

    AZT (zidovudine) is a type of anti-HIV (antiretroviral) drug called a nucleoside. AZT is used in combination with other anti-HIV drugs to treat (but not cure) HIV.
  • Somalia

    Somalia
    Last declare smallpox eradicated.
  • Health care

    Managed Health care growth in uninsured ways theat you could improve health care.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas
    He used sterile maggots for infectious wounds treatments.
  • Gardasil

    Gardasil
    A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer aproved by FDA(Food and drug administration).
  • Stem cells

    Scientists discover how to use a human skin cels to create embryonic stem cells. Technique makes it possible to generate patient-specific stem cells to study or treat disease without using embryos.
  • MIPPA

    MIPPA(Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act) provides incentives for practioners who use electronic health records.
  • FDA

    The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24.