Medical Investigations 1

By Desireeguebara
  • Period: 500 to

    History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    The Middle Ages

  • Roger Bacon invents spectacles
    Sep 11, 1249

    Roger Bacon invents spectacles

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    The Renaissance

  • Sep 11, 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

    Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Use of scientific method begins

    Use of scientific method begins

  • Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Period: to

    The Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination

    Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination

  • James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

  • Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens

    Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens

    -1910

  • First vaccine for rabies

  • First contact lenses developed

  • Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

  • Period: to

    Modern Times

  • insulin first used to treat diabetes

  • Salk discovers polio vaccine

    Salk discovers polio vaccine

  • Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat

    Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat

  • South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant

    South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant

  • Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell

    died in 2003

  • Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment

  • scientists announced they had completed a draft sequencing of the human genome

    scientists announced they had completed a draft sequencing of the human genome

    (ALL THE GENES THAT MAKE UP OUR DNA)

  • Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA

  • Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells

  • The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24, Patient died on August 23

  • Rhazes discovered differences between smallpox and measles

    Rhazes discovered differences between smallpox and measles

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