History of Medicine

By jaiavarela@students.usd305.com
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    Aug 31, 800

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between small poxs and measles.
  • Jan 21, 1315

    Anatomy and Dissection

    an Italian Physician conducted the first public dissection, and the next year he wrote "Anathomia Corporis Humani" which was the first example of a dissection manual and the first true anatomical text.
  • Apr 13, 1377

    Quarantine

    Used Quarantine for th5e first time (the Italian Quaranta) which led to the use of it in other parts of Italy and Europe.
  • Feb 22, 1489

    Leonardo De Vinci dissects corpses

  • Hospitals
    Dec 11, 1500

    Hospitals

    The concept of Hospitals emerged from the Roman Empire.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    The Renaissance

  • Sep 14, 1501

    Cesarean Sections

    first written record of a mother and a child both surviving a Cesarean section.
  • Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Use of the scientific method begins.

  • Blood Cells

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells.
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon

    Used microscope to discover plague fleas.
  • Period: to

    Industrial revolution

  • Discovery of anaesthetic

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invents the stethoscope

  • First successful transfusion of human blood.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    The first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York.
  • First use/ discovery of X-Rays.

    First use/ discovery of X-Rays.

  • Period: to

    The Modern World

  • First vaccine to treat tetanus was invented

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Develops the first polio vaccine.

  • Smallpox is eradicated.

  • HIV was identified as the virus that causes AIDS.

  • Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method.

    Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method.

  • Period: to

    The 21st Century