History of Medicine

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  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Jan 14, 900

    Discovered the difference between small pox and measles.

  • Jan 14, 1010

    The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine are written.

  • Spectacles are invented.
    May 11, 1249

    Spectacles are invented.

  • Feb 13, 1300

    Islamic hospitals;health care for the sick.

  • Jacoba Felicie
    Mar 14, 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    She was a French women who tried to practice medicine but was denied.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    The Renaissance

  • Use of the scientific method begins.

  • Plant cells are discovered , while using a reflective microscope.

    Plant cells are discovered , while using a reflective microscope.

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    describes bacteria.

  • Plague fleas are discovered by using a microscope.

  • The first successful appendectomy happend.

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • 1st vaccination is discovered.

  • The importance of hand washing is shown.

  • John Snow

    John Snow

    stops the outbreak of cholera.
  • X-rays are discovered.

    X-rays are discovered.

  • Science of radioactivity is discovered.

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming

    discovers penicillin.
  • Polio vaccine is discovered.

    Polio vaccine is discovered.

  • Small pox is eradicated.

  • AZT is used to combat AIDS.

  • First vaccine for hepatitis A is developed.

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas

    He used sterile maggots for the infectious wound treatment.

  • Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer is approved by the FDA.

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

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

  • The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient.

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