med 1 block 5

By faithisaacson
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle Ages

  • Sep 15, 620

    Aaron of Alexandria Syriac

    Wrote 30 books on medicine, the "Pandects"
  • Sep 15, 865

    Rhazes

    Discovers difference between smallpox and measles.
  • Sep 15, 1020

    Eye Surgery

    Eye Surgery
    The first eye surgery was performed, using a needle and he was removing a cataract.
  • Sep 26, 1249

    Glasses

    Glasses
    Roger Bacon invents glasses
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 26, 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci dissected corpses
  • Sep 26, 1543

    Vesalius

    Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani.

  • Microscope

    Microscope
    Zacharius Jannssen, dutch lens grinder is to make the first microscope

  • Scientific Method

    Use of scientific method begins

  • William Harvey

    Published "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals" Describing how blood is pumped through the body with the heart
  • Period: to

    Industrial revolution

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    First successful surgery with anesthesia

  • John Snow

    Stops outbreak of cholera

  • stethoscope

    stethoscope
    René Laënnec invents the stethoscope
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Vaccines

    Vaccines
    First vaccine for tuberculosis, and first vaccine for tetanus.

  • Insurance

    First HMO insurance

  • Alexander Fleming

    Discovers Pencicillin

  • Salk

    Polio Vaccine

  • HIV

    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified