The History of Medicine

  • 500

    Hildegarde von Bingin

    First women to discuss plants and their relation with medicine
  • 500

    Treatments

    Treatments usually revolved around plants and herbs
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    Jan 2, 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between small pox and mussels
  • Jan 2, 1000

    Monasteries

    Christian monasteries were founded to treat the ill
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Jan 2, 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He dissected the first corpses
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Jan 2, 1515

    Human Anatomy

    People began dissecting human cadavers and becoming more knowledgeable on the human body and its anatomy.
  • Microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    He discovers blood cells
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon

    Discovered the plague fleas
  • Claudius Amyand

    Claudius Amyand

    He preformed the 1st successful appendectomy.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Develops the first vaccination for smallpox... 1st vaccine for any disease.
  • James Blundell

    James Blundell

    He preformed the 1st successful human blood transfusion
  • Rabies

    1st vaccine was created for rabies
  • Contacts

    1st contact lenses were developed
  • Felix Hoffmen

    Felix Hoffmen

    He developed the 1st aspirin
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Blood Classification

    Karl Landsteiner introduced the blood classification system. (A, B, AB, O)
  • Insulin

    Insulin was 1st used to treat diabetes
  • Dr. Joseph E. Murray

    Dr. Joseph E. Murray

    He preformed the 1st kidney transplant
  • Chicken Pox

    The first vaccine was invented
  • Hepatitis B

    Hepatitis B

    The first vaccine was created for it
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Human Genome

    First rough draft of the human genome was announced
  • Artificial Heart

    World's first self- contained artificial heart was implanted.
  • Dr. Bernard Devauchelle

    Dr. Bernard Devauchelle

    He preformed the first face transplant on a living person
  • 1st cancer treatment

    First vaccine to target was created
  • 1st Artificial Kidney

    1st Artificial Kidney

    The FDA approved the 1st human clinical trial for the 1st artificial kidney.