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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 600
Oldest Medical Textbook
This book is the ´Sushruta Samhita ´ which was written in Sanskrit in India. No original version still exists and it is only known from the later copies. -
Jan 1, 800
Catheters
Catheters were used in the middle ages to relieve painful urinary diseases. They used catheters because back then there was low supply of any antibiotics. -
Jan 1, 1000
Eye Surgery
In the middle ages surgeons used an excruciating procedure called ¨Needing¨ to preform cataract surgery. -
Jan 1, 1210
William of Saliceto
William was an Italian surgeon and a religeous leader in Saliceto. He broke a tradition with Galen by stating that pus formation was inadequate for wounds and he patient. He was also a professer at the University of Bologna. -
Jan 1, 1260
Henri de Mondeville
Herni was a French surgeon who made a remarkable number of benefaction to anatomy and surgery. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1501
Ambrosé Paré
Ambrosé was a French surgeon who became the medical advisor for the French King. He brought these 5 duties of a surgeon into play; to remove what is unnecesarry, to restore what has been dislocated, to sperate what has grown together, to reunite what has been divided, and to redress the defects of nature. -
Jan 1, 1543
'De Humani Corporis Fabrica'
Andreas Vesalius published a book based on human dissection. -
The microscope was invented
Zacharius Jannssen invented the microscope -
Sir Christopher Wren
He experimented with canine blood transfusions. -
Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham was an English physician. He is recognized as a founder of clinical medicine and epidemiology. He is often called the English Hippocrates because he made the importance clear of carefully observing patients and and their symptoms. -
Giacomo Pylarini
gave the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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James Blundell
He performed the first successful transfusion of human blood -
Louis Pasteur
Identiied germs as a cause of disease -
First vaccine developed for cholera
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First vaccine developed for rabbies
Louis Pasteur -
Period: to
Modern World
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The band-aide was invented
Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid -
First vaccine developed for diphtheria
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin -
First vaccine developed for yellow fever
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First vaccine was developed for typhus
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Period: to
21st Century
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Bernard Devauchelle
- years of study as a maxillofacial surgeon at schools throughout France
- offered to lead a team of surgeons to preform the first full facial transplant in France
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Eric M. Genden
First surgeon ever to preform a successful jaw transplant. -
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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A nerve transfer procedure gives a paraplegic patient the ability to move their hand.
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Landmark for mant gene therapy breakthroughs
