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History of medicine

  • Galen
    200

    Galen

    Tracheotomy
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    Discovered difference between smallpox and measles.
  • 1300

    Islamic hospitals

    Health care for the sick.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Method

    Use of scientific method begins.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Reflective microscope
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • John Snow

    John Snow

    John Snow stops outbreak of cholera.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity.
  • San Francisco

    Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  • HMO

    HMO

    First HMO insurance
  • Smallpox

    Smallpox

    WHO declares smallpox eradicated
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
  • Garndasil

    Garndasil

    A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the PDA
  • Scientists discover

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