Medical History

By Alyssa russell
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 659

    First dental amalgams invented

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
  • Spectacles are invented
    1249

    Spectacles are invented

  • 1489

    First dissection of corpse

  • 1500

    Cesarean sections were invented

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Microscope was invented

  • Blood cells are discovered

  • Giacomo Pylarini

    Giacomo Pylarini

    Gives first smallpox inoculations
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Invented first flexible catheter

  • First successful appendectomy

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Stethoscope was invented

  • Dr.Crawford W. Long

    Dr.Crawford W. Long

    Performed first operation using anesthesia.

  • First contact lens developed

  • X-ray was invented

    X-ray was invented

  • Felix Hoffman

    Invents aspirin
  • Period: to

    Modern world

  • Willem J. Kolff

    Willem J. Kolff

    built the first dialysis machine
  • Dr. Harold Ridley

    Dr. Harold Ridley

    Implanted the first permanently placed intraocular lens to correct cataract.

  • First successful kidney transplant

  • First fetal ultra sound

  • Invention of the first artificial heart

  • First human Genome invented

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • First adaptive artificial knee

  • Dr. Colin McGucklin and Dr. Nico Forraz

    Dr. Colin McGucklin and Dr. Nico Forraz

    Developed the first artificial liver

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Development of bionic limbs

    Development of bionic limbs