Med 1 Block 2

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle Ages

  • Dental Amalgams
    Sep 11, 659

    Dental Amalgams

    First tooth filling was in mid evil China
  • Sep 11, 754

    Pharmacy

    first pharmacy was established in Baghdad
  • Rhazes
    Sep 6, 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between measles and small pox
  • Sep 11, 1231

    Medical Universities

  • Avicenna
    Sep 11, 1242

    Avicenna

    discovered that the heart pumped blood through the body but did not figure out how or why
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 11, 1315

    Anatomy and Dissection

    A public dissection of a human body happened in Italy
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    Sep 11, 1489

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    began a series of drawings to portray the human body
  • Sep 11, 1500

    C-Section

    First case of a C-section where both the baby and mother survived
  • Sep 11, 1527

    Paracelsus

    Was called to Basel to treat a leg ailment
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    William discovered the circulatory system
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • First case of scrotal cancer

  • First Vaccination

    First Vaccination

    The first vaccination was given in England in 1796 by Edward Jenner
  • first vasectomy

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Invented the vaccination for rabies
  • X-Ray

    first used
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Isolated radium
  • Lobotomy

    first operation
  • Gregory Pincus

    Gregory Pincus

    Co-invented the birth control pill
  • Cat Scan

    Cat Scan

    first operation
  • AIDS

    first case