History of Health Sciencs

1. established by Chinese
3. Revolution/ 1700s and 1800s, paved the way for modern medical practices
5. Jenner/ administered the first vaccination in 1796
6. Glen/ had many flawed theories which held back true medical progress for centuries
9. Beaumont/ fully described the digestive system in 1822
10. Arab Hippocrates
14. & Watson/ identified the structure and function of DNA
15. documented over 1000 herbs
18. trained doctors in many types of surgeries
19. Plague/ first major pandemic in history
23. Arab Empire/ made advancements in Pharmacology
24. Vesalius/ published the first anatomy book
25. Era/ 1900 to Present
26. Metchnikoff/ explained how white blood cells protect humans from diseases
28. Fertilization/ a way infertile couples could have children
30. father of medicine
31. Lister/ develops methods of medical asepsis
32. van Leeuwenhoek/ created a single-lens microscope

2. era/ 4000 BC to 3000BC. During this era people believed illness was caused by supernatural beings.
4. 1350 to 1700 AD
7. von Roentgen/ developed the X-Ray machine
8. Alexander Fleming/ discovered penicillin
11. Oath/ a code of behavior written by Hippocrates thousands of years ago
12. Pasteur/ developed pasteurization
13. Method/ should be applied to medical research and problem-solving
16. a greater number of cases of an infectious disease than normal in a population or area
17. developed the field of anatomy by dissecting animals
20. Death/ second wave of Bubonic Plague between 1347 and 1352 killing over one-third of Europe’s population
21. Ages/ 800 AD to 1300 AD
22. an epidemic that spreads to a significantly larger population across several countries or continents.
27. Ages/ sacking of Rome by barbarians and the subsequent fall of the Roman empire and the study of medicine was forbidden
29. Hooke/ his invention of a more powerful, compound lens proved that all living things are made up of cells
31. Hunter/ inserted a feeding tube into a patients stomach in 1778