History of Medicine

By kalysahamel
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox.
  • 1020

    First successful eye surgery

    Performed by Ammar ibn `Ali al-Mawsili using a needle and removing a cataract.
  • 1095

    Congregation of the Antonines was founded

    It was founded to treat victims of "St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease.
  • Ibn al-Baitar
    1248

    Ibn al-Baitar

    Wrote on botany and pharmacy, studied animal anatomy and medicine veterinary medicine.
  • Roger Bacon
    1249

    Roger Bacon

    He wrote about convex lens spectacles for treating long-farsightedness.
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • Andreas Vesalius
    1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    Published findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani

  • Use of scientific method begins

    Helps medical field create, test, and analyze new medicine
  • Reflective Microscope

    Reflective Microscope

    Allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Francis Bacon

    Uses microscope to discover plague fleas
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invents the stethoscope

  • James Blundell

    Performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

  • First vaccine developed for cholera

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Develops the first vaccine for rabies

  • First contact lenses developed

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner

    Introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups

  • Dr. Paul Dudley White

    Pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph

  • First vaccine developed for whooping cough

  • First vaccine developed for tuberculosis

    First vaccine developed for tuberculosis

  • First vaccine developed for yellow fever

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • The second rotavirus vaccine approved

    The second rotavirus vaccine approved

    (first was withdrawn)
  • Laurent Lantieri

    Laurent Lantieri

    Performs the first full face transplant.

  • First successful Uterus transplant

    From a deceased donor in Turkey

  • 3D printer used for first skull transplant