Medical Investigations 1 By Desireeguebara Period: 500 to Sep 9, 2015 History of Medicine Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500 The Middle Ages Sep 11, 1249 Roger Bacon invents spectacles Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1699 The Renaissance Sep 11, 1489 Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses Sep 11, 1590 Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope Sep 9, 1600 Use of scientific method begins Sep 11, 1656 Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions Sep 11, 1670 Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells Period: Jan 1, 1700 to Dec 31, 1899 The Industrial Revolution Sep 9, 1796 Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination Sep 9, 1818 James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood Sep 9, 1842 Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens -1910 Sep 11, 1882 First vaccine for rabies Sep 9, 1887 First contact lenses developed Sep 9, 1899 Felix Hoffman develops aspirin Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Sep 9, 2015 Modern Times Sep 11, 1922 insulin first used to treat diabetes Sep 9, 1952 Salk discovers polio vaccine Sep 11, 1952 Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat Sep 11, 1967 South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant Sep 11, 1996 Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell died in 2003 Sep 9, 2001 Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment Apr 9, 2003 scientists announced they had completed a draft sequencing of the human genome (ALL THE GENES THAT MAKE UP OUR DNA) Sep 9, 2006 Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA Sep 11, 2007 Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells Sep 9, 2009 The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24, Patient died on August 23 Mar 2, 2022 Rhazes discovered differences between smallpox and measles
