History of Medicine

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  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle age

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Identifies small pox
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    Writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Invents spectacles
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Dissects corpses

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Invents the microscope

  • William Harvey

    Publishes book based on blood

  • Sir Christopher Wren

    Experiments with canine blood transfusions
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Observes bacteria

  • Giacomo Pylarini

    First smallpox inoculations
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • James Blundell

    First successful transfusion of human blood

  • Vaccine

    First vaccine developed for cholera
  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

    Discovers x-rays
  • Felix Hoffman

    Felix Hoffman

    Developed aspirin
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Jonas Salk

    Developed first polio vaccine

  • Smallpox

    Smallpox is eradicated
  • HIV

    HIV

    Discovery of HIV virus that causes AIDS
  • Vaccine

    Vaccine

    First vaccine available for hep A

  • DNA

    First clone of a sheep
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Smoke free laws

    Smoking is prohibited in workplaces, restaurants and bars

  • Stem Cells

    Cloned human stem cells
  • Laparoscopic Surgery's

    Laparoscopic Surgery's

    Quicker recovery for major surgery's
  • Prosthetic leg

    Prosthetic leg

    First advanced movement prosthetic leg