Medical Investigations 1 Timeline By Memelord07 Period: 500 to Sep 3, 2015 Medical History Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500 Middle Ages Jan 1, 1000 Surgery is considered a proffesion Jan 1, 1300 Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1700 The Renaissance Jan 1, 1347 Black Death Jan 1, 1400 Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tires to practice medicine but is denied Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Sep 3, 2015 Modern Times Jan 1, 1590 Microscope invented Jan 1, 1600 Use of scientific method begins Jan 1, 1656 Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusion Jan 1, 1673 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria Jan 1, 1700 Plaque fleas discovered with microscope Period: Jan 1, 1760 to Dec 31, 1840 Industrial Revolution Jan 1, 1763 First succesful appendectomy Jan 1, 1796 First vaccine for any diasease Jan 1, 1816 Stethoscope invented Jan 1, 1818 First succesful transfusion of human blood performed by James Blundell Jan 1, 1822 Pasturization of milk Jan 1, 1928 Penicillin discovered Jan 1, 1930 First HMO insurance Jan 1, 1952 Salk discoveres polio vaccine Jan 1, 1981 AZT is usednto combat AIDS Sep 8, 2015 WHO declares smallpoz eradicated Mar 2, 2022 Rhazes discovers difference between smallpox and measles
