The History of Medicine

By ianfrost@students.usd305.com
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 740

    Pharmacies in Baghdad

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between small pox and measles
  • 1300

    Islamic hospitals for the sick

  • Glasses are made
    1305

    Glasses are made

  • Jul 30, 1340

    Black Plague

  • 1400

    French woman Jacoba Felicie trys to practice medicine but is denied

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissances

  • 1520

    Niccolo Leaniceno found 400 errors in Pliny's Natural History

    Pliny's Natural History was the main medical teachings book

  • The use of the scientific method begins

  • Robert Hooke - Reflective Microscope

    Robert Hooke - Reflective Microscope

  • Antonie von Leewenhoek describes bacteria

  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon

    used microscope to discover plague fleas

  • Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revoultion

  • Chicken pox vaccination

  • Louis Pasteur cures Cholera, Anthrax and Rabies

    Louis Pasteur cures Cholera, Anthrax and Rabies

  • 1st stethoscope was invented by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec

  • Joseph Lister medical practice of asepsis

  • Robert Koch - discovery of pathogens

    Robert Koch - discovery of pathogens

  • Karl Landsteiner creates blood typing system

    Karl Landsteiner creates blood typing system

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovers vitamins

    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovers vitamins

  • 1st successful blood transfusion

  • Dr. Paul Dudley White Americas first Cardiologist

  • Insulin is first used to treat diabetes

  • Targeted cancer therapies a cure for some cancers

  • Period: to

    21 Century

  • scientists completed a draft of the human Genome

  • greater understanding of stem cells

    greater understanding of stem cells

  • HIV cocktail cure

  • Hugh Herr co-creator of the new prosthetic leg

    Hugh Herr co-creator of the new prosthetic leg

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