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

    roger bacon
  • 1250

    Asclepius was the hero and god of medicine

  • 1250

    asclepius

    asclepius
  • Period: 1301 to

    renaissance

  • 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • 1489

    leonardo da vinci

    leonardo da vinci

  • Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

  • bacteria

    bacteria
  • Period: to

    industrial revolution

  • Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

  • Crawford W. Long uses either as a general anesthetic

  • Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

  • Louis Pasteur identifies germs as clause of disease

  • First vaccine developed for cholera

  • first vaccine

    first vaccine
  • Period: to

    modern world

  • Insulin first used to treat diabetes

  • insulin

    insulin

  • First vaccine developed for diphtheria

  • First vaccine developed for whooping cough

  • First vaccine developed for tuberculosis

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • alexander fleming

    alexander fleming
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • The first face transplant takes place

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • The first leg transplant takes place

  • transplant

    transplant

  • The first womb transplant takes place

  • success of a first time experimental surgery

  • surgery

    surgery