Medical Investigations 1 By briwhelchel 500 Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries Period: 500 to Sep 4, 2015 Medical History Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500 Middle Ages Sep 9, 1010 Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine Sep 9, 1249 Roger Bacon invents spectacles Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1599 Renaissance Sep 9, 1300 Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick Sep 9, 1400 Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied Sep 9, 1489 Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses Sep 9, 1543 Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani Sep 9, 1590 Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Dec 31, 1899 Industrial Revolution Sep 9, 1600 Use of scientific method begins Sep 9, 1796 Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination Sep 9, 1827 Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis Sep 9, 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of handwashing Sep 9, 1854 john Snow stops outbreak of cholera Sep 9, 1882 First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Sep 4, 2015 Modern Time Sep 9, 1978 First test-tube baby is born Sep 9, 1981 AZT is used to combat AIDS Sep 9, 1985 Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine Sep 9, 2006 First vaccine to target a cause of cance Sep 9, 2009 The first FDA approved implanted Abiocor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24th and died August 23 Mar 2, 2022 Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
