Medical Investigations 1 By JoshuaRichards15 Period: 500 to Sep 4, 2015 History of Medicine Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500 Middle Ages Sep 9, 1000 Surgery is considered a profession Sep 9, 1100 Foundation of medical school at Salerno in Italy Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1599 Renaissance Sep 9, 1300 Islamic Hopsitals; Health care for the sick Sep 9, 1348 Black Death Sep 9, 1400 Invention of the printing press Sep 9, 1494 First Syphilis case in Europe Sep 9, 1500 Scientific method came into use Sep 9, 1543 Andreas Vesalius presented the first largely accurate description of the human body Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Dec 31, 1899 Industrial Revolution Sep 9, 1749 Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine for smallpox Sep 9, 1822 vaccines against rabies and anthrax were developed Sep 9, 1831 Cholera discovered Sep 9, 1843 Robert Koch discovered the anthrax disease cycle Sep 9, 1845 x-rays discovered Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Sep 4, 2015 Modern Times Sep 11, 1923 Alexander Fleming discovers the enzyme lysozyme Sep 11, 1954 Kidney transplant from one twin to the other twin Sep 11, 1967 First liver transplant Sep 11, 1968 First heart transplant Sep 11, 2001 Steve thomas used maggots for infectious wound treatments Mar 2, 2022 Rhazes discoverd difference between smallpox and meazles Mar 2, 2022 Anglo-Saxon wrote a meadical book known as Balds leechbook