History of Healthcare

During this time in history, studying human anatomy was now allowed and the printing press allowed discoveries to be published faster.

• The Renaissance

• The Middle Ages

• Industrial Revolution

Robert Hooke

• Built one of the first reflecting microscopes.

• He used a microscope to discover plague fleas.

• He carried out experiments that became the basis of modern

  microbiology.

• This man discovered that pathogens are the cause of some diseases.

Francis Bacon

• Built one of the first reflecting microscopes.

• He used a microscope to discover plague fleas.

• He carried out experiments that became the basis of modern

  microbiology.

• This man discovered that pathogens are the cause of some diseases.

Robert Koch

• Built one of the first reflecting microscopes.

• He used a microscope to discover plague fleas.

• He carried out experiments that became the basis of modern

  microbiology.

• This man discovered that pathogens are the cause of some diseases.

Louis Pasteur

• Built one of the first reflecting microscopes.

• He used a microscope to discover plague fleas.

• He carried out experiments that became the basis of modern

  microbiology.

• This man discovered that pathogens are the cause of some diseases.

During this time science and reason began to replace belief in spiritual

or superstitious causes for illness.

• The Renaissance

• The Middle Ages

• Industrial Revolution

He insisted that doctors use carbolic soap to disinfect instruments and

hands between patients.

• Joseph Lister

• Edward Jenner

• Hippocrates

• Galen

This man discovered the first vaccination when he observed that

milkmaids who are exposed to cowpox do not get smallpox.

• Joseph Lister

• Edward Jenner

• Hippocrates

• Galen

He was the Greek god of healing whose symbol was the snake and which

is now the symbol for a physician.

• Asclepius

• Jacoba Felicie

• Hippocrates

• Galen

This person was tried for practicing without a license.

• Asclepius

• Jacoba Felicie

• Hippocrates

• Galen