History of medicine

  • Rhazes
    500

    Rhazes

    discovered the difference between measles and small pox
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle ages

  • 1200

    how mothers were told to be prepared for child birth

    they said prepare to die during birth
  • The urinary catheter
    1300

    The urinary catheter

  • 1300

    eye surgery

    it rarely saved peoples eyesight
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1340

    bubonic plague

    an epidemic that swept through Europe killing a lot of people
  • Eye Glasses
    1352

    Eye Glasses

    helps people with visual impairments improve their sight
  • 1553

    Girolamo Fracastoro

    discovered that epidemics came from pathogens and that is how they spread
  • discovered blood cells

    discovered blood cells

  • reflective microscope

    reflective microscope

    it allowed study of micro organism
  • Period: to

    Industrial revolution

  • edward jenner

    edward jenner

    vaccinating against diseases
  • Robert Koch

    discovered the bacteria responsible for TB and cholera
  • nikolay pirogov

    the founder of field surgery
  • Louis Pasteur

  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    discovered the x-ray
  • Period: to

    Modern world

  • discovered blood pressure

    discovered blood pressure

  • Florence Nightgale

    the creator of modern nursing
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    he was extremely clean and safe for his patients and himself due to the fact he didn't want to get germs spread
  • discovery of aids/HIV

    discovery of aids/HIV

  • discovered blood types

  • E. Donnall Thomas

    bone marrow transplant
  • Human Genome Discoveries

    Human Genome Discoveries

  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Telesurgery

    Telesurgery

    operating on a patient while not being in the same location
  • Visual prosthetic

    Made to help restore the sight in someones eye
  • Stem Cell Research