History of Medicine

  • 500

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox
  • 500

    Bian Que

    Earliest physician to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis.
  • 500

    Darius I

    King who ordered the restoration of the House of life or a medical school
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 801

    Hesiod

    Reported concept with the Pandora myth
  • Asklepios
    1250

    Asklepios

    Greek god who was know for being the god of medicine
  • Brugsch Papyrus
    1300

    Brugsch Papyrus

    Created the medical papyrus(important paper).
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1500

    Edwin Smith

    Created a new papyrus with Egyptian medicine for surgical treat but no magic.
  • Ebers Papyrus
    1551

    Ebers Papyrus

    Papyrus used as a guide for therapy and magic
  • Hearst papyrus

    Hearst papyrus

    Update to the Ebers papyrus, which means it is used for therapy.
  • Microscope invented

    Allowed for study of microscopic organisms
  • Anton van

    Anton van

    Observes bacteria
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Louis Pasteur

    First vaccine for rabies
  • Contact lenses

    Contact lenses

    First contact lenses were created
  • Wilhelm Conrad

    Wilhelm Conrad

    Discovers x-rays.
  • Bubonic Plague

    Bubonic Plague

    First Vaccine developed for the plague
  • Felix Hoffman

    Felix Hoffman

    Develops aspirin
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Insulin

    Insulin

    First thing used to treat diabetes
  • Diabetes

    Insulin first made to treat diabetes
  • Tuberculosis

    Tuberculosis

    First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • Influenza

    First vaccine for the influenza
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    First vaccine for polio
  • Chicken pox

    First vaccine developed for chicken pox
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Cancer

    Cancer

    First vaccine for cancer
  • Bionic Limbs

    Bionic Limbs

    connect with the brain and created a vaccine
  • Flu

    Flu

    Had a big pandemic outbreak
  • Zika

    Zika

    Virus outbreak
  • James Thomson

    Discovered how to create stem cells
  • Saffron

    Saffron

    Spice used as medicine in the Aegean island