History of Medicine

By IvanVelo14
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the differences between smallpox and measles
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    Writes the Book of Healing and the Canon of Medicine
  • 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Invents spectacles
  • Louis IX
    1260

    Louis IX

    Established Les Quinze-vingt. Originally a retreat for the blind, it became a hospital for eye diseases, and is now one of the most important medical centers in Paris.
  • 1275

    Mondino de Luzzi "Mundinus"

    Carried out the first systematic human dissections since Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos 1500 years earlier.
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1489

    Corpses are dissected

  • Microscope is invented.

    Microscope is invented.

  • Printing press

    Printing press

    Allowed for publication of medical discoveries

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Discovers blood cells

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Observes bacteria.

  • Francis Bacon

    Uses microscope to discover plague fleas

  • Giacomo Pylarini

    gives the first smallpox inoculations
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Claudius Aymand

    Claudius Aymand

    Performs the first successful appendectomy
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Develops the process of vaccination for smallpox

  • The stethoscope is invented.

  • First contact lenses are developed

    First contact lenses are developed

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups

  • Insulin is first used to treat diabetes

  • Alexander Fleming

    Discovers penicillin
  • First vaccine developed for influenza

    First vaccine developed for influenza

  • Willem J. Kolff

    Willem J. Kolff

    Invents the artificial kidney dialysis machine
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.

    Scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.

  • First draft of human genome is announced

  • The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc.

  • George Church

    He successfully use the "revived" DNA of an extinct mammoth to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
  • Thomas Manning

    Thomas Manning

    First man to receive a penis transplant