History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Oct 17, 659

    First Tooth filling

    The first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin.
  • Rhazes
    Jun 20, 900

    Rhazes

    discovered difference between small pox and measles
  • Medical License introduced
    Oct 15, 1140

    Medical License introduced

    Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license, indicating that doctors were clearly under some form of regulation.
  • Medical school at Montpellier founded
    Jul 18, 1289

    Medical school at Montpellier founded

  • Cesarean sections
    Jan 1, 1500

    Cesarean sections

    The first written record of having both a mother and baby surviving a cesarean section.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Paracelsus
    Nov 10, 1527

    Paracelsus

    one of the prime movers in the shift away from superstition and dogma in medicine, causing Renaissance physicians to rethink how they approached illness.
  • Aug 9, 1550

    Ambroise Paré

    one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology, and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine,
  • De Motu Cordis was published

    detailed analysis of the overall structure of the heart, going on to an analysis of the arteries, showing how their pulsation depends upon the contraction of the left ventricle
  • Bacteria and protists were first observed with a microscope

  • Albrecht von Haller

    Albrecht von Haller

    best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions and, in addition, he was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician that put thermometer measurements to clinical practice.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a way to cure small pox by using cow pox on people
  • smallpox vaccination became compulsory in Britain.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    He called these germs because they were
    germinating, or growing. His theory was that these
    germs were causing the decay.
  • "Germ Theory" was published

  • the bacteria which caused anthrax, a disease in cattle, sheep and sometimes humans.

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • the wife of the British king took control of the nursing unit of the British army

  • Robert Koch

    He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    the first woman to formally study and practice medicine in the United States.
  • Linda Richards

    Linda Richards

    the first professionally trained American nurse.
  • bombardment was first diagnosed by British Army doctors

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public.

  • Artificial liver was invented

    Artificial liver was invented

  • Abiocor artificial heart invented

  • Ortho McNeil invented birth control patch

    Ortho McNeil invented birth control patch

  • Dr. Ian Frazer

    Dr. Ian Frazer

    developed HPV vaccination