History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    902

    Rhazes

    Identified smallpox
  • 1010

    The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine were written

  • Roger Bacon
    1249

    Roger Bacon

    Invents spectacles
  • 1403

    Black Death in Venice

  • 1489

    First dissection of corpse

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • 1543

    Human Anatomy findings were published

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen

    Invents the microscope
  • Sir Christopher Wren

    Sir Christopher Wren

    experiments with canine blood transfusions
  • Blood cells were discovered

  • Bacteria was observed for the first time

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Develops the process of vaccination for smallpox
  • Period: to

    Industrial

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invents the stethoscope
  • First successful transfusion of human blood

  • First vaccine developed for anthrax

  • First contact lenses developed

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Earle Dickson

    Earle Dickson

    Invented the Band-Aid
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovery of penicillin
  • First vaccine developed for yellow fever

  • First vaccine developed for typhus

  • First blood bank in Chicago

  • The first draft of the human genome

    The first draft of the human genome

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Adaptive Artificial Knee

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • The FDA approves the first human clinical trials

  • Thomas Manning

    Thomas Manning

    First to receive a genitalia transplant