Med 1 Block 5

By CadeSterrett
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    Aug 31, 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered difference between smallpox and measles.
  • Sep 2, 1084

    England Canterbury

    First documented hospital in England Canterbury
  • Hospital
    Aug 31, 1123

    Hospital

    Hospitals were built in London
  • Sep 2, 1242

    Ventricles of the heart

    Ibn an-Nafis suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate
  • Sep 2, 1288

    Santa Maria Nuova

    The hospital of Santa Maria Nuova founded in Florence, it was strictly medica
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Black Plague
    Aug 31, 1347

    Black Plague

    The plague killed 1/3 of the population
  • Blood Letting and Tooth Extractions
    Sep 2, 1540

    Blood Letting and Tooth Extractions

    English barbers and surgeons united to create The United Barbers-Surgeons Company
  • Sep 2, 1540

    Cure for syphilis

    Paracelsus discovered that drinking mercury was a cure for syphilis
  • Sep 2, 1560

    Andreas Vesalius

    Vesalius dissected human bodies

  • Microscope

    Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents microscope
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Rene Laennac

    Laennac invents stethoscope

  • Human Blood

    First transfusion of human blood
  • Use of ether

    Use of ether

    First use of ether as an anesthetic.
  • Public use of anesthesia

    Public use of anesthesia

    First public use of anesthesia during surgery

  • Appendectomy

    First successful appendectomy performed in Iowa
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Blood Bank

    Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank at Cook County Hospital in Chicago

  • Rene Favaloro

    Surgeon Rene Favaloro performs first coronary bypass operation using patient's vein

  • Meningitis

    First vaccine found
  • HIV

    HIV

    HIV is identified
  • Lyme Disease

    Lyme Disease

    First vaccine for lyme disease