History of Medicine

The Middle Ages

Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

Rhazes

900

Discovered difference between smallpox and measles.

Medical care becomes regulated.

1000

Avicenna

May 3, 1010

writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.

Rodger of Sicily

Apr 8, 1140

He forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license.

Medicinal Plants

Jun 4, 1206

People would use herbs for curing purposes.

Roger Bacon

Jun 18, 1249

Invents spectacles.

University at Montpellier

Feb 23, 1340

they included a school on anatomy.

Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1501 to Dec 31, 1795

Andreas Vesalius

Apr 12, 1540

Dissected human bodies and made detailed drawing of everything.

Turpentine Remedy

Feb 2, 1580

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

Telescope

Sep 30, 1608

Invention of the telescope.

Heart Pumped Blood Discovery

Jul 21, 1626

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

Blood Transfusion

Nov 14, 1664

experiment of transferring blood to one dog to another

Industrial Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1796 to Dec 31, 1900

Edward Jenner

Sep 4, 1796

Introduced the invention of the vaccinations.

Discovery of Blood Cells.

Dec 3, 1799

Invention of the Stethoscope

Apr 6, 1816

Pasteuration of Milk

Apr 30, 1830

Discovery of Science Radioactivity

Aug 12, 1900

Modern World

Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1999

First use to treat diabetes.

Oct 27, 1922

First HMO Insurance

Jan 28, 1938

Salk

Dec 4, 1952

Discovers polio vaccine.

21st Century

Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Sep 1, 2017

Dolly the Sheep Becomes First Cloned

Sep 12, 2000

Steve Thomas

Mar 26, 2001

Used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment.

Embryonic Stem Cells

Oct 18, 2005

discovery of how to use skin cells to create embryonic cells.

First Vaccine To Target A Cause of Cancer.

Jul 14, 2006

First Heart Implanted

Jun 9, 2009