Med 1 Block 7

Middle Ages

Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

Plague of Justinian

541

Plague of Emmaus

541

Occured in Isreal

Rhazes

Aug 31, 900

Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles.

Avicenna

Sep 2, 1010

Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine

Roger Bacon

Sep 2, 1249

Roger Bacon invents spectacles

Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1699

Islamic Hospitals

Aug 31, 1300

Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick

Jacoba Felicie Denied

Aug 31, 1400

Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied

Scientific Method Begins

Sep 1, 1600

The use of the scientific method begins which helps scientist and doctors alike to problem solve. Doctors use it to help address unknown illnesses.

Robert Hooke

Sep 1, 1665

Robert Hooke develops the reflective microscope

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Sep 1, 1673

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria

Industrial Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1700 to Dec 31, 1899

Francis Bacon

Sep 1, 1700

Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas

Giacomo Pylarini

Sep 2, 1701

Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations

Contact Lenses are Developed

Sep 2, 1887

First contact lenses developed

Bubonic Plague Vaccine

Sep 2, 1897

First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague

Felix Hoffman

Sep 2, 1899

Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

Modern World

Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Aug 31, 2016

Bernard Fantus

Sep 2, 1937

Bernard Fantus pioneers the use the first blood bank in Chicago

Alec Jeffreys

Sep 2, 1984

Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method

Hepatitis A Vaccine

Sep 2, 1992

First vaccine developed for hepatitis A.

Dolly is Cloned

Sep 2, 1996

Dolly the sheep becomes first ever to be cloned

Cancer Targeting Vaccine

Sep 2, 2006

First vaccine to target a cause of cancer