Med 1 block 5

By sophielnelson
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle ages

  • Aug 31, 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered difference between small pox and measles
  • Surgery is considered a profession
    Sep 6, 1000

    Surgery is considered a profession

    This is important because now people who perform surgeries can now be paid and specialized in their craft.
  • Sep 2, 1010

    Avicenna

    The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • Roger Bacon
    Sep 2, 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon invented the spectacles
  • Sep 6, 1250

    The first magnifying glass was constructed

    Roger Bacon constructed the first magnifying glass.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • The Black Death (bubonic plaque)
    Sep 6, 1340

    The Black Death (bubonic plaque)

    Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents. Estimated deaths were 75-200 people.
  • Aug 31, 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    Tries to practice medicine, bur is denied
  • Sep 2, 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He dissects corpses
  • Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Janssen invented the microscope

  • The method of tying arteries after amputations to stop the loss of blood was introduced

    Ambroise Pare` was an army surgeon and he learned to do this by working with bodies
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered first vaccination
  • Invention of the stethoscope

    Invention of the stethoscope

    René Laënnec - a french physican, invented the stethoscope
  • First successful use of anesthesia

    First successful use of anesthesia

    With Dr. Morton's tenacity driven by enthusiasm and discovery, he and renowned surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, John Collins Warren made history

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    First woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York

  • John Snow

    stops outbreak of chlorea
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • First vaccine for tetanus.

    First vaccine for tetanus.

    Tetanus - acute infectious disease of the central nervous system caused by the toxins of Clostridium tetani

  • Bernard Fantus

    Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank at cook county hospital in Chicago.
  • A method is developed to produce usable form of penicillin

    A method is developed to produce usable form of penicillin

    Howard Florey and Ernst Chain develop method to produce usable form of penicillin

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

    First vaccine was made to target a cause of cancer

  • Discovery of how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells

    Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells