Med 1 Block 2

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle ages

  • Sep 11, 700

    Medical School

  • Rhazes
    Sep 6, 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between measles and small pox
  • Sep 8, 910

    Small Pox

    The discovery and distinction of the small pox virus is very important in history because that was a dangerous illness in the middle ages.
  • Roger of Sicily
    Sep 8, 1140

    Roger of Sicily

    Forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license, in indicating that doctors were clearly under some form of regulation.
  • Sep 8, 1157

    Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier

    Permitted to anyone who had a medical license to teach there regardless of religion or backround
  • Caduceus
    Sep 8, 1200

    Caduceus

    Asclepius Greek God of healing; Caduceus is the symbol for medicine
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 8, 1300

    Pain becomes important

    Pain is considered a symptom and is watched carefully and used in the diagnosis of disease and conditions.
  • Plague
    Sep 8, 1346

    Plague

    The plague ravaged Europe, and rich and poor alike succumbed with terrifying speed.
  • Black death
    Sep 8, 1347

    Black death

    The largest plague wiping out almost half of the population of the time.
  • Sep 11, 1347

    An outbreak of Bubonic Plague broke out in...

    An outbreak of Bubonic Plague broke out in
  • French Woman Jacoba Felicie
    Sep 11, 1400

    French Woman Jacoba Felicie

    Tries to practice medicine but its denied
  • Sep 11, 1510

    French surgeon Ambroise Pare

    Considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology.
  • William Harvey
    Sep 11, 1578

    William Harvey

    English medical doctor physical
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Discovered a vaccine for smallpox
  • Code of Hammurbi

    Sets out fees for surgeons and punishments for malpractice.
  • James Blundell

    Performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
  • Emil von Behring

    Discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetnaus and diptheria vaccines
  • Wilhelm Von Roentgen

    Wilhelm Von Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Dr. Paul Dudley White

    Dr. Paul Dudley White

    Americas first cardiologists
  • Edward Mellanby

    Edward Mellanby

    Discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets
  • Dr. Joseph E. Murray

    performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins.
  • Dr. William DeVries

    implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days.
  • The FDA

    Approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologie....