The History of Medicine

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  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 659

    The First Amalgram

    The First Amalgram
  • 754

    The First Pharmacy

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
  • 1316

    Mondino de Luzzi

    wrote the first manual on modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical text
  • 1436

    Beginning of Quarantine

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    The Renaissance

  • 1533

    Ambroise Pare

    Ambroise Pare
    inventor of surgical instruments
  • 1543

    De Fabrica Corporis Humani published

  • 1570

    lemon juice used to treat scurvy

  • The first flushing toilet

    The first flushing toilet

  • William Harvey

    published an Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart

  • First Vaccination

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Elizbeth Blackwell

    Elizbeth Blackwell
    first women to formally study and practice medicine

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    dramatically decreased the death rate of new mothers

  • Nightingale Training School opens

  • The first rabies vaccine

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    discovered the existence of different human blood types
  • Period: to

    The Modern World

  • founding of electrocardiography

    founding of electrocardiography

  • Finding of stereotactic method

  • First intrauterine device

  • Discovering of insaline

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Jean Mitchel

    Jean Mitchel
    first partial face transplant

  • HPV Vaccine

  • The second rotavirus approved

  • Laurent Lantieri

    Laurent Lantieri
    performed the fist full face transplant

  • first liver grown from stem cells