History of Medicine

By GavinG20
  • Alcmaeon Croton
    500

    Alcmaeon Croton

    Distinguished veins from aerteries
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 659

    Dental Amalgams

    First use of a substance for tooth fillings
  • 754

    Pharmacies

    First Pharmacy was created in 754 in Baghdad
  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    Discovered between small pox and measles
  • 1231

    Frederick II

    Promoted a set of laws concerning medical education
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissnace

  • 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Dissects corpses
  • Vesaluis
    1543

    Vesaluis

    Published finding on human anatomy

  • Circulation

    The heart is muscle that works as a pump to circulate blood around the body

  • Printing press

    Allowed for publication of medical discoveries
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Discovers blood cells
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Claudius Aymand

    Performs first successful appendectomy

  • Innoculation

    Introduce pathogen or antigen into organism
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    Invents Stethoscope

  • Louis Pasteur

    Identifies germ as cause of disease
  • X-Rays

    X-Rays

    X-Rays were discovered
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Introduces blood groups A,B,AB, and O
  • Earle Dickson

    Earle Dickson

    Invented Band Aid
  • Tuberculosis

    Tuberculosis

    First vaccine for Tb

  • Alexander Fleming

    Discovers Penicillin

  • Yellow fever

    First vaccine for Yellow fever
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Human Genome

    Completed a draft sequencing of the human genome
  • Stem Cell

    Stem Cell

    Can be programmed to be any cell in the body
  • HPV vaccine

    HPV vaccine

    First human papillomavirus vaccine

  • Cancer

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Thomas Manning

    First man to receive a penis transplant