Aaron of Alexandria Syriac . He wrote 30 books on medicine
Sep 9, 1084
First documented hospital in England Canterbury
Sep 9, 1095
Congregation of the Antonines, was founded to treat victims of "St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease.
Sep 9, 1248
Ibn al-Baitar wrote on botany and pharmacy and studied animal anatomy and medicine veterinary medicine.
Sep 9, 1284
Mansur hospital of Cairo was built
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
Sep 9, 1307
John Arderne is an English surgeon
Sep 9, 1346
black plague killed 75 to 200 million people
Sep 9, 1500
Paracelsus, an alchemist by trade, rejects occultism and pioneers the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. Burns the books of Avicenna, Galen and Hippocrates
Sep 9, 1510
pioneered the treatment of gunshot wounds
Sep 9, 1546
Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable seedlike entities
Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heart
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
Joseph Priestley discovers nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, ammonia, hydrogen chloride and oxygen
recognized cowpox which is a deadly disease worse than the small pox
first small pox vaccination
First painless surgery with general anesthetic
First vaccine for cholera
Period: to
Modern World
Karl Landsteiner discovers the existence of different human blood types
First vaccine for Tuberculosis and tetanus
Metered Dose Inhaler
Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
new viral disease emerged called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
