History of Medicine

  • 1960 BCE

    Modern World

    Birth control pills were first legal and declared safe in 1960 and for married couples in 1965 and unmarried couples in 1972.
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 754

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    The first pharmacy was established the year 754 in Baghdad. By the 12th century they could be found in Europe.
  • 900

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    Rhazes was the first person to take an authentic description of the symptoms of small poxs and measles. He lived from 860-932.
  • 1300

    Middle Ages

    Cleaning wounds began in the 13th century when a guy named Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antispectic method. Where wounds were to be clean and sutured to promote healing.
  • 1305

    Middle Ages

    Eye glasses by the end of the 13th century were common in Italy.
  • 1315

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    Italian Physician Mondino De Luzzi conducted a public dissection in the year 1315, the follwing year he would write Anathomia corporis humani. Which is the first example of a modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical writing.
  • 1423

    Renaissance

    By the 14th century Florence at 34 hospitals
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • 1510

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    Leonardo drew the first foetus of a womb during the Renaissance so physicans had a better understanding how to do surgeries and give the right medicine.
  • 1527

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    Paracelus a physician, cured a patient of a leg infection in 1527 without amputating it.
  • 1545

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    Ambroise Pare method for treating gun wounds were putting boiled oil on it. It worked (Method for Wounds Caused by Firearms)
  • Renaissance

    William Harvey studied a dying dog and found that the heart pumps blood all around the body, he also found that the heart has two distinct beating halves.
  • Renaissance

    Renaissance
    Opium based pain killers were used during the Black death.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Industrial Revolution

    Zacharius Jannssen invented the first microscope which allowed to see bacteria clearer and closer.
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    Rene Laennec invented the first sthehoscope at 1818, a big advance for the medical field.
  • Industrial Revolution

    On october 16th 1846 the first public demonstration of anesthesia took place at Massachusetts general hospital.
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    X-Ray was first discovered in Germany by a man named Wilhelm Roentgen
  • Industrial Revolution

    In 1899 aspirin was invented by a German chemist named, Felix Hoffman. One day he decided the juice from the willow tree bark would not be effective to relieve pain. He is best known for having synthesized acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) and joining the Bayer pharmaceutical research facility in England.
  • Modern World

    All physicians have to take the hypocratic oath before they can work.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Modern World

    Sir Alexander Fleming left out a petri dish of staph bacteria and later found that it was killed by a mold
  • Modern World

    Modern World
    The first liver transplant was done in 1967
  • Modern World

    CT scans were available at 1970
  • Modern World

    Modern World
    The first fMRI was made in the 1990s
  • Modern World

    Modern World
    Herceptin is a breast cancer drug that came into the scene at 1998 and is 25% more effective than drugs like chemotherapy.
  • 21st century

    Heart disease deaths dropped by 40% in the 21st century, mainly because of new medicines and anti smoking laws.
  • 21st century

    In 2000 scientist from the international human genome project released a rough draft of the human to the public of 23000 human genes and what they do.
  • 21st century

    21st century
    Doctors and patients can now contact each other quickly because of cellphones and information can be accessed when needed quickly and rapidly shared.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • 21st century

    Until 2002 most doctors belived that giving their female patients extra hormones such as estrogen made them healthier and protected them, they were wrong until a study found out it increased blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, etc.
  • 21st century

    21st century
    Anti smoking laws and no smoking signs were more common around to try to prevent diseases and reduce the amount of deaths