The History of Medicine

By Addie.Ollenberger
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 754

    First Pharmacy was Established

  • Rhazes
    900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between small pox and measles.
  • 1200

    Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing.

  • Eyeglasses were invented to correct vision
    1300

    Eyeglasses were invented to correct vision

  • 1350

    The concept of quarantine was created.

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • scientific method came into place
    1520

    scientific method came into place

  • 1530

    Books were written about how the overall approach to medicine and surgery should be

  • William Harvey

    Made a detailed description and diagram of the heart.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    invented the first reflecting microscope

  • Studies in human anatomy took place

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Invention of the stethoscope

  • Public demonstration was made with ether anesthesia

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered germs and bacteria and how to get rid of them.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    discovered the first X-ray
  • Felix Hoffman

    Felix Hoffman

    Decided that the juice from the willow tree bark would not be effective anymore to reduce pain.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • First successful human blood transfusion

  • Dr. Paul Dudley White

    Dr. Paul Dudley White

    He became one of America's first cardiologists

  • Edward Mellanby

    discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets

  • AZT is used to combat AIDS

  • First vaccine for Hepatitis A

    First vaccine for Hepatitis A

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas

    used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment

  • The completion of the Human Genome Project identified a complete set of DNA, which lets us have individualized treatments.

  • Gardasil was approved by the FDA

    Gardasil was approved by the FDA

  • Scientists figure out how to use human skin cells to make embryonic stem cells.

  • the first FDA approved implanted heart was surgically placed in a patient