History Of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 754

    Pharmacies

    Pharmacies
    The first pharmacy opened in Baghdad, it was opened by an Arabic man because he believed that medicine was an art. It was mostly used to learn and test medicine.
  • 856

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    He discovered the difference between small pocks and mescals. He also made a great achievement to treat facial palsy. Rhazes the wrote a book on dieting and nutrients.
  • 1300

    Islamic Care

    Islamic hospitals are like health care for the sick, the Islams also made advancements in mathematics, astronomy, and chemistry, this influenced the way they prescribed medicine to patients as well as finding the right dose to someone.
  • Period: 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • 1506

    More than Theory

    More than Theory
    Alongside this improved understanding of how the body worked, physicians developed better cures, built upon observation instead of theory.Adding to the herbs and cures often used by the Islamic physicians, explores to the New World and Asia brought back other cures, such as Quinine, from the bark of the Quinn tree, a preparation still used in the treatment of malaria and its symptoms.
  • Vaccination

    Edward Anthony Jenner (1749-1823) was an English doctor and scientists. He is known as the pioneer of vaccinations, having created the smallpox vaccine. Medical historians call him the "Father of Immunology". His works are believed to have eventually saved more lives than those of any other person.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Depression and Diseases

    Back in the 1900s there were indeed vaccination but they were not mass produced due to lack of transportation. Many diseases were not reported also because they didn't have an efficient way to keep track of the reports.
  • Period: to

    21st Century