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460 BCE
Hippocrates
He became known as the founder of medicine and he was the greatest physician of his time. He based everything he knew on observations on the human body. He developed the Oath of Medicine. He was known as the father of medicine. -
400 BCE
Ancient Times
Pre-400s -
384 BCE
Aristotle
He believed that knowledge could be abtained by the interaction with physical objects. He also did reasearch over animals and classified them into species based over their blood. He wanted Men to come up with an universal knowledge about reality. -
159 BCE
Galen
He was a greek physician who believed in the ideas of hippocrates and followed them. on 159AD at the age of 28, he became a surgeon for gladiators, but at the age of 10 he seeked more fame and fortune. He was forced to leave Rome because he was a suspicion and two years later he was invited by the emperor and he was under his protection until his death. -
1 BCE
Midwives
They were the ones to care for women during their childbirth. It was a practice in which the women would help on healing, and a somewhat nutritionist. -
1 BCE
Apollo
He was the god of healing. He could also bring disease and plague with his arrows. He was known as the god who could cure and able disease. Many people would pray unto him to beg his to take off the sickness of a person. Other would seek the professional way, with medicines. -
450
Middle ages
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1094
Ibn Zuhr aka Avenzoar
He was one of the greatest physicians in the middle ages. He was emphasized on the art of dissecting a dead human body and he knew anatomy in detail. He was the first to test medicine on animals before using them on humans. -
1240
Arnaldus de Villa Nova
He was a physician and a religious former. He was thought as a false astrologer and alchemist. He studies medicine and looked at courses of theology. He did many writings on medicine. He was also a personal doctor of the King of Aragon. -
1270
Mondino
He was an Italian physician anatomist. He was one step ahead of his predesessonr and he started to practice dissections as a part of anatomy. This made him known as the first person to do human dissection public. He did the dissecion on an executed criminal. -
1275
Joannes Zacharias Actuarius
He was a great physician and he was honored with the title of actuarius. He also wrote a lot of books based of medicine. He was a doctor in constantinople(the capital of turkey) -
1500
Dark ages
St. Benedict of Nursia encouraged the care of the sick. They believed that cure for disease was only through prayer. Many ancient procedures like surgery were lost. Lots of pharmacology abandoned experimental aspects. -
1500
Renaissance
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1500
Rebirth
Most of the medicine was dominated still by teachings of the church, but by now a lot of physicians began to learn more about the human body. They began to translate books and texts about the human anatomy. Leonardo Da Vinci the first anatomical drawings helped a lot of dissections. -
1514
Andreas Vesalius
He was a physician and the author of one of the most influential human anatomy books which helped in the dissecting. He is mostly recognized as the modern founder of human anatomy. -
1519
Leonardo da Vinci
He mostly focused in the human anatomy. During his lifetime he dissecter at least 30 human bodies, as well as healthy bodies and diseased. He was the first to get accurate drawings and explanations of human anatomy. He had all his notes in a notebook which he intended them to be used in the medical field. -
1530
Ambroise Pare
He was a barber surgeon in the provinces. He studied anatomy by dissection, he became a master barber surgeon and he entered the military to serve. He treated both sides during the wars of religion. He specialized in gunshot wounds, after his treatment they were neither inflamed now swollen. -
William Harve
He was a physician and he was the first to describe how the blood pumped to our body by the heart. He was a scientist and a surgeon. He was fascinated by anatomy and the veins in the human body. He was the first to suggest about how humans and mammals reproduces by the fertilization of an egg by sperm. -
Industrial Revolution
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Gerard van Swieten
He was a personal physician. He founded a chemical laboratory and introduced a clinical instruction. -
Edward Jenner
He developed a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to cowpox virus. This process became known as vaccination. He was sometimes called the founding father of immunology. -
Dorothea Lynde
She served as a superintendent of army nurses.She is best known for her patient in fighting to improve teh conditions of mental asylums in north america. -
Florence Nightingale
She was a famous nurse which went to the Crimean War to help the wounded soldiers. She and her nurses saved many lives. She made hospital cleanaer places and showed how this helped the sick get better. She was the founder of modern nursing. -
Clara Barton
She was a pioneer nurse who founded the Red Cross. She was a nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. At this time nursing was not formalized and she did nit attend to nursing school. She was doing humanitarian work and very few women would work outside the house. -
Modern era
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Walt Whitman
He was a poet, and he also volunteer as a nurse during American Civil War. -
Linda Richards
She was he first professionally trained american nurse. She made nursing training programs in the US, Japan, and she was the first to create the system to keep individual medical records for patients. -
Mary Mahoney
she was accepted to nursing school to the hospital for women and children. She became the first black woman to complete the nursing training. She was the first black member of american nurse associations. -
Lavinia Dock
She was a nurse, feminist, author, pioneer in nursing education. She was an assistant of school nursing. She helped finding an organisation that would become the national league for nursing. -
Lystra Gretter
She was honored for her efforts in promoting nursing as a repectable profession. She shifted the nursing model, she was sho cut the work to 8 hour shift to give students and nurses more time to study. More groups and nursing libraries. -
Lillian D Wald
She was an American nurse. She was known for contributions of human rights and was a founder of community nursing. -
Margaret Sanger
She started a promotion for womens rights to birth control. She opened the first birth control clinic in the US. She fought for womens right her entire life. She studied nursing and she also started a capaign to educate women about sex. -
Elizabeth Kenny
She was and Australian nurse and she alternated approach to polio treatment known as the Kenny method. She was a woman who had a big interest in medicine and human anatomy. She treated and volunteered in hospitals and developed working knowledge in nursing. -
Virginia Henderson
She was a nurse and theorist known for the function of the nurse is to help the individual, sick or well. She had a strong desire to help. She worked as an insructor at an educational hospital. She was a nurse supervisor and a clinical insructor. -
Florence Wald
She was a pioneer who tried to improve the care of dying patiens all over the world. She invited her patiens and family to listen to their input. She was a visionary nurse and leader as she demostrated courage.
