The History of Medicine

By Crazy_French_Fri
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Sergius of Reshiana
    536

    Sergius of Reshiana

    wrote medical treatises.
  • 800

    homer

    Polydamna supplied Greek forces besieging troy with healing drugs
  • Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
    900

    Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles

  • Hesoid
    900

    Hesoid

    ontological conception of a disease via Pandora Myth.
  • 1400

    Students could study under a master physician in Universities in Western Europe.

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • 1510

    Ambroise Pare Surgeon

  • William Clowes
    1540

    William Clowes

    surgical cheast for military surgeons.
  • 1550

    Peter Lowe

  • 1553

    Miguel Serveto describes circulation of blood through the lungs.

  • Paracelsus

    Paracelsus

    rejected the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine.
  • Edward Jenner developed smallpox vaccine

    Edward Jenner developed smallpox vaccine

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Humphry Davy Dicovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

    Humphry Davy Dicovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

  • announcement of anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

  • Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • Joseph Lister

    father of modern surgery
  • Carl Landsteiner discovers different human blood types

    Carl Landsteiner discovers different human blood types

  • alois Alzheimer

    alois Alzheimer

    discover Alzheimer's disease
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Willem Einthoven events ecg/ekg

  • Paul Ehrlich

    chemotherapeutic cure fore sleeping sickness

  • First vaccine for tetanus

  • the human genome project draft was completed

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • the first telesurgury was performed by Jacques Marescaux

    the first telesurgury was performed by Jacques Marescaux

  • first HPV vaccine approved

  • the second rota-virus vaccine approved

  • visual prosthetic Argus II

    visual prosthetic Argus II