History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • dentist / tooth filling
    659

    dentist / tooth filling

  • first pharmacy
    754

    first pharmacy

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
  • Ophthalmology and optics
    1200

    Ophthalmology and optics

    believed humans could see through invisible beams of light.
  • Medical education in universities
    1231

    Medical education in universities

    frederick 2 made a new set of laws concerning medical education standards
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • First eyeglasses
    1305

    First eyeglasses

    By the end of 13th century the product was very well know.
  • Anatomy and dissection
    1315

    Anatomy and dissection

    First public dissection for students and spectators.
  • Girolamo Fracastoro
    1478

    Girolamo Fracastoro

    Italian doctor that suggested the epidemics may come from pathogens outside the body. (Indirect to direct)
  • Cesarean Sections
    1500

    Cesarean Sections

    the first written record of a mother and baby surviving a cesarean section
  • Andreas Vesalius
    1541

    Andreas Vesalius

    wrote a influential books on human anatomy. dissected a corpse and examined it.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • James Lind

    James Lind

    Discovered that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
  • Edward Jones

    Edward Jones

    a method to prevent people from smallpox.
  • René laënnec

    Invents stethoscope
  • Blood transfusion

    First succesfsul transfushion of human blood
  • nitrous oxide

    Dentist uses nitrous oixde as an anesthetic.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
  • diphtheria

    diphtheria

    First vaccine for diphtheria
  • Whooping cough

    Whooping cough

    First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough).
  • tuberculosis

    First vaccine for tuberculosis.
  • Measles

    Firstvaccine for measles.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • partial face transplant

    partial face transplant

    Jean michel dubernard did the first half face transplant.
  • HPV

    HPV

    the first HPV vaccine approved
  • Kidney

    Kidney

    The first kidney was grown in vitro in the U.S
  • penis transplant

    First man to receive a penis transplant
  • 3D printer

    3D printer

    3d print heart from human patients cells