History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle ages

  • Aug 31, 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discovered difference between small pox and measles
  • Aug 31, 1300

    Islamic hospitals

    Islamic hospitals
    The Islamic hospitals were first made and it was health care for the sick.
  • Aug 31, 1400

    Medicine

    Jacoba Felicie the first french woman tries to do a medicine practice but is denied
  • Sep 7, 1489

    corpses

    The first corpses were dissected.
  • Aug 31, 1500

    plant Medicine

    People used herbs to plants to heal the sick and herbal medicine was practiced until 1500
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Canine blood

    Canine blood transfusions were experimented on.
  • blood cells

    blood cells
    Blood cells were discovered.
  • Bacteria

    Bacteria was observed
  • smallpox

    The first smallpox inoculations was given.
  • Claudius Aymand

    Claudius Aymand
    Claudius Aymand preforms the first successful appendectomy.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for the smallpox, this is the first vaccine for any disease.
  • Nitrous oxide

    Nitrous oxide was discovered.
  • Stethoscope

    Stethoscope
    Stethoscope was invented
  • Transfusion

    The first successful transfusion of human blood happened.
  • Bubonic plague

    The first vaccine for the Budonic plague was developed.
  • Period: to

    Modern world

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups.
  • Band-Aid

    Band-Aid
    Band-aids were invented.
  • Insulin

    Insulin was first used to treat diabetes.
  • Diphtheria

    The first vaccine for diphtheria was developed.
  • Whooping cough

    The first vaccine for whooping cough was developed.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Heart surgery

    Surgeons managed to implant a new-generation artificial heart in a patient.
  • Face transplant

    Face transplant
    Isabelle Dinoire was the first patient to get a partial face transplant.
  • Cancer

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer happened
  • stem cells

    stem cells
    Doctors began to induce potential stem cells and also cloned stem cells.
  • Liver

    A functional human liver was created from stem cells and doctors can do surgery more easily with making their own human livers.