history of medicine By daphnetorres 500 Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries Period: 500 to 1300 middle ages 910 Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox 1010 Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine 1249 Roger Bacon invents spectacles 1249 roger bacon 1250 Asclepius was the hero and god of medicine 1250 asclepius Period: 1301 to 1700 renaissance 1489 Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses 1489 leonardo da vinci 1590 Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope 1656 Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions 1670 Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells 1683 Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria 1683 bacteria Period: 1701 to 1899 industrial revolution 1816 Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope 1816 Rene Laennec 1842 Crawford W. Long uses either as a general anesthetic 1844 Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic 1857 Louis Pasteur identifies germs as clause of disease 1879 First vaccine developed for cholera 1879 first vaccine Period: 1900 to 1999 modern world 1922 Insulin first used to treat diabetes 1922 insulin 1923 First vaccine developed for diphtheria 1926 First vaccine developed for whooping cough 1927 First vaccine developed for tuberculosis 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin 1928 alexander fleming Period: 2000 to 2018 21st century 2005 The first face transplant takes place 2006 First vaccine to target a cause of cancer 2011 The first leg transplant takes place 2011 transplant 2012 The first womb transplant takes place 2016 success of a first time experimental surgery 2016 surgery
