The History Of Medicine

  • Rhazes
    500

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between small pox and mesles
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle ages

  • 910

    smallpox identifacation

    Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    She writes a The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
  • Roger Bacon
    1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger invented spectacles helping to see smaller items.
  • 1300

    Islamic hospitals

    Healthcare for the sick
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1400

    jacoba felicie

    This french woman tries to practice medicine but is denied.
  • 1489

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo dissects a corpses
  • Scientific method

    Scientific method

    The use of the scientific method begins.
  • Printing press

    Printing press

    Allowed for publication of medical discovery
  • Francis Bacon

    Uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
  • Giacomo Pylarin

    Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Claudius Aymand

    Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
  • stethoscope

    stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
  • james Blundell

    james Blundell

    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
  • syringe was created

    syringe was created

    Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe
  • Cholera vaccine

    Cholera vaccine

    First vaccine developed for cholera
  • Asprin invented

    Felix Hoffman develops aspirin
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • earle Dickson

    earle Dickson

    Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid
  • insulin used to treat diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes
  • chicken pox vaccine

    chicken pox vaccine

    First vaccine developed for chicken pox
  • testtube baby born

    First test-tube baby is born
  • smallpox

    Smallpox is eradicated
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • smoke-free-laws

    smoke-free-laws

    75 cities prohibited smoking in workplaces,restaurants and bars.
  • human genome project begains

    human genome project begains

    starting to modifying body cells
  • Connie Culp

    First human face transplant was done
  • Approved vaccine

    the FDA approved the first papillomavirus called gardasil
  • cancer vaccine

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer