Medical Investigation 1

  • Period: 500 to

    Medical History

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Sep 9, 1000

    Surgery is consireded a profession

    Surgery is consireded a profession
  • Sep 9, 1200

    Christian church encouraged to help the sick and needy

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 9, 1300

    Islamic hopitals; health care for the sick

    Islamic hopitals; health care for the sick
  • Sep 9, 1400

    Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied

  • Sep 9, 1449

    An epidemic of Naples broke out

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Use of scientific method begins

  • Robert Hooke- reflective microscope

    Robert Hooke- reflective microscope
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
  • Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas

  • Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccation

  • Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis

  • At least 18,000 deaths caused by Cholera

  • Cocaine was used as a local anesthetic

    Cocaine was used as a local anesthetic
  • Rubber gloves were first used in surgery

    Rubber gloves were first used in surgery
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin

    Sir Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
  • Jonas Salk develops the first polio

  • First vaccine for chicken pox

    First vaccine for chicken pox
  • HIV, the virus that causes AID'S is identified

  • Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic cells

  • Rhazes discover difference between smallpox and measles