Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
Sep 4, 1300
Islamic hospitals;health care for the sick
Sep 9, 1347
An outbreak of bubonic plague broke out in Istanbul (modern day Turkey).
Sep 4, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
Sep 9, 1500
physicians began to learn more about the human body
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
use of scientific method begins
Robert Hooke reflective microscope
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
anecdotal began to gave way to the tried and tested.
Humphry Davy discovered several chemical elements and compoundsinvented miner’s safety lamp
Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus.
Robert Koch founder of bacteriology discovered the anthrax disease cyclediscovered the bacteria responsible for TB and cholera
Period: to
Modern World
bubonic plague hits San Francisco
First vaccine for lyme disease
First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three years later.
discovered how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney
DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth was spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully used the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
