history of medicine

  • 500

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    He discovered the difference between Measles and small pox
  • 500

    Sushruta Samhita

    Sushruta Samhita
    Sushruta Samhita published a book about medicine
  • 500

    Ayurvedic medicine

    Ayurvedic medicine
    The Ayurvedic medicine book was published
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle ages

  • 700

    Medical school of Cos

    Medical school of Cos
    A medical school that was the first creative period of scientific medicine
  • 1250

    Asklepios

    Asklepios
    The Greek god of healing
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1500

    Saffron

    Saffron
    A medicine used in ancient Greece
  • 1500

    Ebers Papyrus

    Ebers Papyrus
    History document
  • 1500

    Edwin Smith Papyrus

    Edwin Smith Papyrus
    An Egyptian medical text (surgical treatise)
  • Printing Press

    Printing Press
    Allowed for publications of medical discoveries
  • Marcello Malpighi

    Marcello Malpighi
    Discovered Capillaries
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Kahun Gynecological Papyrus

    Kahun Gynecological Papyrus
    The oldest known medical text in Egypt
  • Code of Hammurabi

    Code of Hammurabi
    The set of laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister made an acid instrument he developed that he used for surgery
  • Clifford Allbut

    Clifford Allbut
    invented the clinical thermometer
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Invented a cure for chicken cholera
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Salvarsan

    Salvarsan
    a drug used to cure syphilis
  • Penicillin

    Penicillin
    penicillin is discovered
  • John Enders

    John Enders
    created a vaccine for the measles
  • Christiaan Barnard

    Christiaan Barnard
    Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant
  • Louise Joy Brown

    Louise Joy Brown
    Created the first test tube baby
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Transplant

    Transplant
    first face transplant
  • Merck

    Merck
    first HPV approved
  • Laurent Lantieri

    Laurent Lantieri
    Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant
  • leg transplant

    leg transplant
    The first leg transplant took place
  • womb

    womb
    The first womb transplant