used a method to work out the death rate by examining the names of the vicars of a prticular peerish
Sep 1, 1400
Outbreak of typhoid fever
Sep 10, 1500
great pox broke out
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius was the author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy "De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Structure of the Human Body)"
Sep 15, 1552
Several surgical instruments were invented by Ambroise Paré
Sep 10, 1553
Girolamo Fracastoro put the idea out that epidemics may be caused by pathogens from outside of the body
William Harvey an English doctor was the first person to properly describe the systemic circulation and properties of blood, which is pumped around the body by the heart
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
There was a cholera outbreak
Herman von Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope
typhoid came through
Microbes were only discovered by Louis Pasteur
Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays
Period: to
Modern World
Thomas Fogarty invented the balloon embolectomy catheter
First test-tube baby is born
Alec Jeffreys creates a genetic fingerprinting method
Smallpox is eradicated
First vaccine developed for hepatitis A
Razes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
