Historical Individuals and Events in Healthcare

Isolated Radium in 1910

• Clara Barton

• Marie Curie

• Dorothea Dix

• Florence Nightingale

Established the pattern of heredity

• Sir Alexander Fleming

• William Harvey

• Robert Koch

• Gregory Mendel

Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796

• Edward Jenner

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Sir Alexander Fleming

Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

• Gabriel Fahrenheit

• Benjamin Franklin

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Harvey

Began public health and sanitation systems

• Chinese

• Egyptians

• Greeks

• Romans

Discovered X-rays in 1895

• Jonas Salk

• William Roentgen

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

The Father of Medicine

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Harvey

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Hippocrates

Discovered penicillin in 1928

• Sir Alexander Fleming

• Gabriel Fahrenheit

• Edward Jenner

• Robert Koch

Artist who used dissection to draw the human body

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

• Pablo Picasso

Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited.

• Ancient Romans 753 BC - 410 AD

• Dark Ages 400 - 800 AD

• Middle Ages 800 - 1400 AD

• Renaissance 1350 - 1650 AD