By the 14th Century, universities had developed in Western Europe that could be classed as medical schools where students could study under a master physician.
middle ages
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
renaissance
Jan 1, 1346
black plague ravaged Europe
middle ages
Jan 1, 1400
frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
middle ages
Jan 1, 1500
Ambroise Pare set up a school for mid wives
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
modern time
Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalins published an exquisitely illstrated anatomy text
renaissance
Jan 1, 1554
Ambrosie Pare was made a master surgeon
the microscope was important technical advance
Jean Baptiste denis performed a blood transfusion
Period: to
industrial revolution
Humphry Davy
Edward Jenner developes a method to protect people from small pox by exposing them to the cow pox virus
Anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide were announced
Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
Florence Nightingale
Louis Pasteur
insulin was first used to treat diabetes
sir alexander fleming discovers penicillin
Paul Zoll developes the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heart beat
the first kidney transplant between identical twins is preformed
world health organization announces small pox is eradicated
Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
