History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    The Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered difference between smallpox and measles.
  • 1000

    Medical care becomes regulated.

  • May 3, 1010

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
    writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
  • Apr 8, 1140

    Rodger of Sicily

    He forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license.
  • Jun 4, 1206

    Medicinal Plants

    People would use herbs for curing purposes.
  • Jun 18, 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    Invents spectacles.
  • Feb 23, 1340

    University at Montpellier

    they included a school on anatomy.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Apr 12, 1540

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    Dissected human bodies and made detailed drawing of everything.
  • Feb 2, 1580

    Turpentine Remedy

    Discovery that is was far more efficient at healing the wound then boiling oil.
  • Telescope

    Telescope
    Invention of the telescope.
  • Heart Pumped Blood Discovery

    Heart pumped blood around the body and that the heart had two distinct beating halves.
  • Blood Transfusion

    experiment of transferring blood to one dog to another
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Introduced the invention of the vaccinations.
  • Discovery of Blood Cells.

  • Invention of the Stethoscope

    Invention of the Stethoscope
  • Pasteuration of Milk

  • Discovery of Science Radioactivity

    Discovery of Science Radioactivity
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • First use to treat diabetes.

  • First HMO Insurance

  • Salk

    Salk
    Discovers polio vaccine.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Dolly the Sheep Becomes First Cloned

    Dolly the Sheep Becomes First Cloned
  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas
    Used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment.
  • Embryonic Stem Cells

    discovery of how to use skin cells to create embryonic cells.
  • First Vaccine To Target A Cause of Cancer.

  • First Heart Implanted