Medical History

By _Daniela_
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    Nov 5, 900

    Rhazes

    Discovers the difference between small pox and measles
  • Ibn al-Baitar
    Aug 23, 1248

    Ibn al-Baitar

    wrote botany an pharmacy.
  • Roger Bacon
    Feb 13, 1249

    Roger Bacon

    writes about convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness
  • Mar 14, 1288

    The hospital of Santa Maria Nuova founded in Florence, it was strictly medical.

  • concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy.
    Mar 2, 1300

    concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy.

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Miguel Serveto
    Nov 14, 1553

    Miguel Serveto

    describes the circulation of blood through the lungs.
  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen

    Invented the microscope
  • Blood cells are discovered

    Blood cells are discovered

  • The microscope and fashions nearly 500 models.

    The microscope and fashions nearly 500 models.

  • James Lind

    James Lind

    citrus fruits prevent scurvy
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    The stethoscope is invented
  • First successful transfusion of human blood.

    First successful transfusion of human blood.

  • First women received her medical degree

    First women received her medical degree

  • Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

    establish the germ theory of disease.
  • First vaccine for cholera.

    First vaccine for cholera.

  • First vaccine for anthrax

    First vaccine for anthrax

  • First vaccine for plague.

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • First vaccine for meningitis.

    First vaccine for meningitis.

  • W.H.O. (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated.

    W.H.O. (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated.

  • First vaccine for hepatitis

  • Dr. William DeVries

    Dr. William DeVries

    Artificial heart transplant

  • HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • First draft of human genome is announced.

    First draft of human genome is announced.

  • A "mini-liver"—the size of a small coin—is generated from human cord blood stem cells

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

  • FDA

    FDA

    approves first human clinical trials.

  • The success of an first-time experimental surgery