History of Medicine

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  • 500

    Alcmaeon of Croton

    distinguished veins from the arteries
  • 500

    Middle Age surgery

    Middle Age surgery
  • 500

    Middle ages

    Middle ages
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 1010

    Avicenna

    Writes The Book Of Healing and The canon of medicine
  • 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon invents spectacles
  • 1300

    Islamic hospitals

    Islamic hospitals ; health care for the sick
  • 1400

    A French Woman

    Jocabo Felicie tries to practice medicine but was denied
  • 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
  • 1501

    renaissance medical

    renaissance medical
  • 1501

    Renaissance era

    Renaissance era
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renasissance

  • 1536

    Ambroise Pare

    Ambroise Pare mixes egg whites, rose oil and turpentine to put on wounds.
  • 1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius started discovering the human body in fresh light.
  • Girolamo Fabrici

    Studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heart
  • Anton Van Leeuwehoek

    He discovered blood cells
  • Air

    Air was discovered back in 1772 it was known by accelerates combustion
  • industrial revolution small pox

    industrial revolution small pox
  • Dr.Edward Jenner

    First introduced the idea of vaccinations in 1796, when he successfully prevented a young English boy from getting smallpox.
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Rene Laennec

    invents the stethoscope
  • James Blundell

    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
  • Willan Morton

    a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
  • Louis Pasteur

    identifies germs as cause of disease
  • Conrad Rontgen

    Made a discovery of X-rays on his wifes hand .
  • Felix Hoffman

    He developes asprin
  • Modern World

    Modern World
  • Modern World

    Modern World
  • Period: to

    Modern world

  • Diabetes

    insulin was first used to treat diabetes
  • Whooping cough

    First vaccine developed for whooping cough
  • Transplant operation

    It was the first transplant operation that was a successful
  • Small pox

    is eradicated
  • HIV

    the virus that causes AIDS is indentified
  • Dolly

    The sheep was the first clone
  • Heart Transplant

    This was the first heart transplant
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Cancer

    First vaccine to target the cause of cancer
  • 21st Century Doctors

    21st Century Doctors
  • 21st Century

    21st Century