The History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 754

    Pharmacy

    Pharmacy
    The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754
  • 1305

    Eyeglasses

    The earliest description of glasses being made are in 1305 in Giordano da Pisa sermon
  • 1315

    Dissection

    Mondino de Luzzi conducted a public dissection for his students and spectators to watch.
  • 1363

    Guy De Chauliac

      Guy De Chauliac
    Created a 7 volume medical standards book right before he died for surgeons to come.
  • 1377

    Quarantine

    The thought of quarantine patients, happen because of the after math of the Black Death so the disease could not spread.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • 1540

    Barber-Surgeon

    British surgeons & skilled tradesmen who were different from physicians joined with barbers
  • 1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    He wrote many books on anatomy from his observations; his best-known work was De Humani Corporis Fabrica, which contained detailed drawings of the human body as if it were alive.
  • 1546

    Medicine dosage reform

    Pharmacopoeias attempted to standerize the composition and dosage of medicine
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    He published "The Motu Cordis" which was a book detailing about the cardiovascular system
  • The great plague of London

    This was the last major year of the epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in London
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    He discovered the vaccine for smallpox.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Elizabeth blackwell

    Elizabeth blackwell
    The first women to graduate from medical school in the US.
  • Vaccine was discovered

    the first vaccine for cholera was found
  • vaccine for rabies was found

    it was found by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux
  • Bubonic Plauge

    the first ever vaccine was found
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • TB vaccine

    it took 13 years for them to successfully make a vaccine
  • Sonogram

    the first ever sonogram was done in 1956
  • AIDS

    The first time discovering AIDS in the US was in Los Angles, New York & San Francisco.
  • Godfrey Hounsfield

    Godfrey Hounsfield
    he created the first CT scan
  • Michiaki Takahash

    Michiaki Takahash
    Found the first chickenpox vaccine
  • Steven M. Feinstone

    Steven M. Feinstone
    found the Hepatitis A vaccine
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Maurice Hilleman

    Maurice Hilleman
    found the mumbs vaccine
  • DNA

    scientist have found the complete genome in our dna
  • stem cells

    the discover of stem cells rapidly changed medicine but also very controversial
  • Atripla

    a medication that distractedly changed the way we treat HIV