Medical History

Middle Ages

Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

Rhazes

Feb 3, 900

Rhazes discovers the difference between small pox and measles

Medical Care becomes regulated

May 4, 1000

One of the first non-biased health care univeristies

Oct 31, 1157

Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier permitted anyone who had a medical license to teach there, regardless of religion or background

Islamic hospitals

Mar 28, 1300

Health care for the sick is created

Christian Monasteries founded to treat the ill

Apr 8, 1350

Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1501 to Dec 31, 1795

Scientific Method begins to be used

Mar 4, 1600

Robert Hooke

Feb 4, 1665

Develops reflective microscope

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Sep 4, 1673

Describes bacteria

Using the microscope plague fleas are discovered

Nov 3, 1700

Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope

Mar 23, 1795

Industrial Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1796 to Dec 31, 1990

Edward Jenner

Mar 12, 1796

Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination

Ignaz Semmelweis

Apr 24, 1847

Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of hand washing

John Snow

May 15, 1854

John Snow stops outbreak of cholera

Bubonic Plague

Jun 26, 1900

Bubonic plague hits San Francisco

Modern World

Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1999

MRI, and CAT scans are invented

Nov 30, 1920

Alex Fleming Discovers penicillin

Jul 27, 1928

Salk discovers polio vaccine

Aug 28, 1952

WHO declares smallpox eradicated

Sep 29, 1980

AZT is used to combat AIDS

Oct 30, 1981

21st Century

Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Sep 1, 2017

Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment

Jan 1, 2001

The Human Genome project

2005

Identified all of the 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA.

Gardasil approved by the FDA to help fight cervical cancer

Feb 2, 2006

Embryonic stem cells

Dec 31, 2008

Scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells

First FDA approved AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24

Jun 24, 2009

Patient died august 23