The History of Medicine By ianfrost@students.usd305.com Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500 Middle Ages 740 Pharmacies in Baghdad 900 Rhazes Discovered the difference between small pox and measles 1300 Islamic hospitals for the sick 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 Dec 31, 1795 Renaissances 1520 Niccolo Leaniceno found 400 errors in Pliny's Natural History Pliny's Natural History was the main medical teachings book 1600 The use of the scientific method begins 1665 Robert Hooke - Reflective Microscope 1673 Antonie von Leewenhoek describes bacteria 1700 Francis Bacon used microscope to discover plague fleas 1796 Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination Period: Jan 1, 1796 to Dec 31, 1900 Industrial Revoultion May 14, 1796 Chicken pox vaccination 1800 Louis Pasteur cures Cholera, Anthrax and Rabies 1816 1st stethoscope was invented by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec 1840 Joseph Lister medical practice of asepsis 1850 Robert Koch - discovery of pathogens 1901 Karl Landsteiner creates blood typing system Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1999 Modern World 1906 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovers vitamins 1907 1st successful blood transfusion 1913 Dr. Paul Dudley White Americas first Cardiologist 1922 Insulin is first used to treat diabetes 2000 Targeted cancer therapies a cure for some cancers Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Aug 31, 2017 21 Century 2003 scientists completed a draft of the human Genome 2006 greater understanding of stem cells 2006 HIV cocktail cure 2017 Hugh Herr co-creator of the new prosthetic leg
