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Period: 200 to
Medical History Timeline
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Period: 200 to Sep 10, 1400
MIddle Ages
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500
Less Dramatic Disease
Women often die from childbirth, infection, choldren usually did not live into adulthood becuase of infection left untreated or dental problems. -
500
Wine cleans wounds.
Opium was sometimes used as an anaesthetic while wounds were cleaned with wine to try and prevent infections. -
500
Jesus
Many people often used Jesus as a healer. They claimed he could heal the blind and give them sight, let the paralyzed walk, cast the devil out of a possession, heal a women with a blood disease and even rais the dead. They beleived that the reason you were sick was because you angered the gods or messed with the devil. -
Sep 10, 1000
Medical School
Medical Schools started mostly in Europe, the most famous school was Salerno in Southern Italy. Suprising Salerno allowed women to study there even though it was one of the most famous and very powerful school. It was one of the very first schools to let womens study in the Medical feild. -
Sep 10, 1000
Barber Surgeons
Barbers not only cut your hair, they also do surgerys suck was amputations, dental extraction, blood letting or blood leeching and even trepanning (Drilling a hole into the human skull to "relieve" pressure from the brain, or to let out the demons in the mind.) Sometimes after operations bloody bandages would be placed out on the barber pole as a sign of advertisment. The Barber pole also was a symbold, Red was the blood, white was the bandages and blue was the veins. -
Sep 11, 1010
Book of Healing
Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
Sep 10, 1286
Corrective Lenses
Muslim mathtician and scientist Alhazen created the first eyeglass as a way to magnifie small words in books. About 20 years after that many people started to wear spectacles. Spectacles had convex lenses that could correct their eyesights from far sighted to near sighted. -
Period: Sep 10, 1400 to
The Renaissance
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Sep 11, 1463
Women Denied
Jocaba Felicie was denied from practicing medicine without a license, she defended herself by saying thtat sometimes womens felt embarassed to go to a male doctor. The judge did not find this in her favor and she was forbidden to practice medicine. -
Sep 11, 1523
Printing Press
Printing presses allowed others to publicize there discovers in the newspapers. -
Sep 11, 1543
First Anatomy Book
The Structure of the Human Body, written by Belgian physician and professor Andreas Vesalius and published in 1543. His textbook soon became the athorative reference. -
Sep 11, 1543
Human Anatomy
Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani -
Motion of the Heart
William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart -
Blood Vessel Book
William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart -
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The Industrial Revolution
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Scurvys
James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy -
Appendectomy
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy -
Dentist anesthetic
William Morton, a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first openly identified woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in Britain. Her sister Emily was the third woman in the US to get a medical degree. -
Germs Cuases disease
Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease -
White Blood Cells
Hewson examined red cells, which he found in the serum to be flat rather than globular, and described white blood cells. which he observed by diluting blood with serum instead of water. As a result of his discoveries, Hewson has sometimes been called the father of hematology. -
Rbbies Vaccine
First vaccine for rabies was developed by Louis Pasteur. In his early years Pasteur had already acquired considerable renown and respect in France -
Diptheria
Emil von Behring discovers antioxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines -
Cocaine Anesthesia
Cocaine anesthesia was first suggested in 1859 by Karl Koller, at the suggestion of Sigmund Freud, in eye surgery. German surgeon August Bier was the first to actually use cocaine for intrathecal anesthesia in 1898 during surgery. -
X-Ray
Wilhelm Roentgen, a German professor of physics, was the first person to discover X-Rays. To highlight the unknown nature of his discovery, he called them X-rays. For his remarkable achievement he was honored with the first he first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. -
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The Modern World
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Blood Group
Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Band-aids
Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid -
Arthritis
Percy Lavon Julian synthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis. -
Kidney Transplant
The first successful kidney transplant was done by Docter Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital in Boston. The patient was Richard Herrick his identical twin Ronald offered his kidney to be transplanted to his brothers. -
Leukemia Drug
Gertrude Elion patented a leukemia-fighting drug -
First Heart Transplant
On 3 December 1967, South African doctor, Dr Christiaan Barnard, performed the world's first human to human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. -
AIDS
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified -
Kidney Dialysis
Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine -
Clone Sheep
Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone -
Vaccine for Cancer
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
First Full Face Transplant
The world’s first full face transplant took place in Spain. The patient was a man injured in a shooting accident. In July, the patient Oscar spoke with difficulty at a news conference at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron hospital, where he was operated on in late March. -
1984
Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method to help CSI find forenistic evidence.
