Medical Investigations 1 By DestanyDirksen Period: 500 to Sep 11, 2015 History of medicine Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500 Middle ages Sep 11, 1000 Medical care becomes regulated Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1699 Renaissance Sep 11, 1300 Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick Sep 11, 1350 Christian Monasteries founded to treat the ill Sep 11, 1400 Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied Sep 11, 1510 Surgery was practiced mostly by barbers Sep 11, 1600 Human Anatomical studies allowed Sep 11, 1600 Use of scientific method begins Sep 11, 1673 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria Period: Jan 31, 1700 to Dec 31, 1899 Industrial Revolution Sep 11, 1700 Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas Sep 11, 1796 Edward Jenner discovered the 1st vaccination Sep 11, 1827 Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis Sep 11, 1854 John Snow stops the outbreak of cholera Sep 11, 1897 Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Sep 11, 2015 Modern World Sep 11, 1900 Bubonic plague hits San Francisco Sep 11, 1900 Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, Cat scans Sep 11, 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin Sep 11, 1952 salk discovers polio vaccine Sep 11, 1981 AZT is uded to combat AIDS Sep 11, 2000 Steven Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment Mar 2, 2022 Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox measles