History of Medicine

By kyleeem
  • Rhazes
    500

    Rhazes

    He discovered the difference between small pox and measles
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 754

    Pharmacies

    first pharmacy was established in Baghdad
  • Plastic Surgery
    800

    Plastic Surgery

    Started in Egypt and helped with noses making people breath better
  • 1249

    spectacels

    two reading stones connected with a hinge balanced on the bridge of the nose
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1348

    Abraham of Aragon

    Jewish physician who studied diseases of the eyes
  • 1352

    eyeglasses

    help to correct vision
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    1489

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    dissects corpses
  • Printing Press

    Printing Press

    Allowed for publications of medical discoveries
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    observes bacteria
  • Period: to

    Revolution

  • Bird Masks

    Plague doctors wore a bird like mask to protect them from being infected by the disease
  • Dr. Horace Wells

    Dr. Horace Wells

    American Dentist, Uses nitrous oxide as an aesthetic
  • Elizabeth Blawell

    first person to receive a medical degree
  • Typhoid

    a disease discovered in 1880
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    invented first vaccine for Rabies
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Tuberculosis

    Tuberculosis

    active TB in the lungs
  • Heart Disease

    leading cause of death in the U.S.
  • Elmer V. McCollum

    associates and identifys Vitamin D
  • cancer

    cancer

    became one of the TOP three causes of death
  • Michiaki Takahashi

    Michiaki Takahashi

    invented the first vaccine for chicken pox
  • Robotic Surgery

    Robotic Surgery

    it operates on surgery's and does the work for you
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • FluMist

    vaccine invented against the influenza virus
  • Smoking laws

    Smoking laws

    in certain states their are laws where you cant smoke in some places this helps prevent lung disease and lung cancer.
  • Liquid Biopsies

    detects changes in people with metastatic cancer
  • Smart-Phone Heart Moniter

    detects your heart rate from your finger on your phone