History of Medicine

By CiaranPrickett
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between Smallpox and Measles
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • 1249

    Spectacles are invented

  • Bubonic Plague Starts
    1334

    Bubonic Plague Starts

  • 1489

    First corpses are dissected

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • 1543

    Vesalius

    publishes findings on human anatomy

  • The microscope is invented

  • Christopher Wren

    Christopher Wren

    Experimenting with canine blood transfusions
  • Blood cells are discovered

    Blood cells are discovered

  • Discovery that citrus fruits help to prevent scurvy

  • The first Vaccination for Smallpox is created

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    creates the first stethoscope
  • The first successful blood transfusion is preformed

    The first successful blood transfusion is preformed

  • Louis Pasteur

    Identified germs as clause for disease

  • The first vaccine for Anthrax is invented

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Creates a system to divide blood into different categories
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Diabetes is treated with insulin

    Diabetes is treated with insulin

  • First vaccine for mumps is created

  • Robert S. Ledley

    Robert S. Ledley

    Invented CAT-Scans

  • The first vaccine for pneumonia is created

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • The first artificial heart was implanted in a patient

  • Jean-Michel Dubernard

    Preforms the first partial-face transplant

  • Doctors introduce stem cells and cloned human cells

  • Laurent Lantieri

    Laurent Lantieri

    Preforms the first full-face transplant
  • The outbreak of the Ebola virus

    The outbreak of the Ebola virus