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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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Dec 12, 754
First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754. As one medieval Arabic physician said these were places for “the art of knowing the materia medica simples in their various species, types and shapes. From these, the pharmacist prepares compounded medications as prescribed and ordered by the prescribing physician.” Pharmacies proved to be very popular and more drug stores soon opened up around the Arabic world. -
Dec 31, 1153
Anna Komnene
Anna Komnene, commonly latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, hospital administrator, and historian. She was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and his wife Irene Doukaina. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance Starts
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Dec 14, 1315
anatomy and disection
Many historians have believed that knowledge about anatomy stagnated the Middle Ages. However, there is a great deal of evidence that medieval physicians were conducting experiments and examining the body of the human body. In the year 1315 the Italian physician Mondino even did a public dissection for his students and spectators. The following year he would write Anathomia corporis humani, which considered the first example of a modern dissection manual. the first true anatomical text. -
Dec 31, 1368
Guy de Chauliac
Guy Chauliac was known as the father of medicine. He was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna. It was translated into many other languages and widely read by physicians in late medieval Europe. -
Jan 1, 1377
Quarantine
The concept of quarantine – to keep groups of people apart so that disease could not spread – began in the aftermath of the Black Death. In the year 1377 the city of Ragusa (now known as Dubrovnik) issued orders to combat the plague that included making arriving ships wait 30 days in the harbour before docking, so that authorities could be sure no one was infected. -
Jan 1, 1400
Old medicine
In the 1400's the medicine people used was.
-Equal amounts of radish, bishop-wort, garlic, wormwood, helenium,crop-leek, and hollow-leek.
`Round them up and boil them in butter with celandine and red nettle.
`Keep the mixture in a brass pot until it is a dark red color.
`Strain it through a cloth and smear on the forehead or aching joints. -
Dec 31, 1500
cesarean
Cesarean sections were practiced throughout the Middle Ages, this was done because the mother had died or had no chance of survival – and in some cases where the child was also already dead. But around the year 1500 we have the first written record of having both a mother and baby surviving a cesarean section. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Jean Andre Venel
Jean established the first orthopedic institute in 1780. Which was the first hospital dedicated to the treatment of children's skeletal deformities. He developed the club-foot shoe for children born with foot deformities and various methods to treat curvature of the spine. -
Skin Cancer
Skin cancer was first discovered as long ago as 1800's it was discovered by the inventor of the stethoscope a french physician called Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec. Melanoma is the most deadly killing around 55,000 people each year. That's one person every ten minutes. -
Hospital des Enfants Malades
The first pediatric hospital in the Western world is generally accepted to be the Hospital des Enfants Malades, the hospital for sick children in English which opened in 1802 in Paris -
Harvey Cushing
Harvey Cushing is known as the Father of neurological surgery. In the early 20th century, He developed techniques and instruments for operating on the brain. Before Cushing started his career it was said that brain tumors are improbable, and the mortality rate was only 90%. Early in his career Cushing dramatically dropped the mortality rate to 10%. And by the time of his retirement in 1937 he had successfully removed 2000 tumors. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Werner Forssman
Werner Forssmann in 1929 he believed you could insert a catheter into the heart. Many people believed he was crazy so to prove them wrong he stuck a catheter into his own heart. Even though it worked he git fired and joined the Nazi Army. But he still won the Nobel Prize. He then later died of heart Failure. -
PTSD
The term Posttramatic stress disorder came into use in the 1970's in large part due to the diagnoses of U.S. Military Veterans of the Vietnam War. It was officially recolonized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 in the third edition of the diagnostic and Statistical manual of medical disorders. -
Period: to
21st Century
