Leprosy was the most feared disease of the Middle Ages. the disease was found in about 2,000 colonies.
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
Sep 9, 1300
A plauge called the Black Death killed every fourth person in Europe,
Sep 9, 1400
A Frenchwomen Jacoba Felcie tries to practice medicine but is declined.
Middle Ages
Sep 9, 1400
the flu became a major worry because it could form epidemics, generally occurring in the winter or early spring.
Middle ages
Sep 11, 1510
Paré was a French surgeon, anatomist and an inventor of surgical instruments.
Sep 11, 1550
Egg yolk and oil of roses releived pain.
Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.
Period: to
industrial revolution
the scientific Method started being used.
William Harvey published a book called, An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals. it described how blood is pumped through the heart and the body.
Discovers blood cells and observes animal and plant tissues and microorganisms.
Francis bacon uses Microscope to discover plauge fleas.
René Laënnec invents the stethoscope
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to receive a medical degree (from Geneva Medical College in Geneva, New York).
First vaccine for rabies
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.
First vaccine for typhoid fever
Period: to
Modern world
isulin first used to treat diabetes.
First vaccine for tetanus.
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins
Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell (dies in 2003)
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
Rhazes discoverd the diference between small pox and measles.