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Materia Medica
In 65 A.D., Dioscorides, a Greek, wrote his Materia Medica (13.152.6). -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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1157
Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier
Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier (1157–1202) permitted anyone who had a medical license to teach there, regardless of religion or background. (1157–1202) permitted anyone who had a medical license to teach there, regardless of religion or background. -
1160
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen- wrote the Liber simplicis medicinae (simple book of medicine) -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1338
The Black Death
The Black Death started from the disease that was carried around by the rats in England which spreaded to humans and all over Europe -
1456
Sick children
Sick children -
A microscopic revolution
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, made one of the earliest microscopes. The detail the revolutionary microscopes could see allowed the English scientist Robert Hooke to observe cells for the first time. In 1661 the Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi identified capillaries which finally showed the link between arteries and veins and proving Harvey's theory for the circulation of blood. -
William Harvey
William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart -
New lands bring new medicines and new diseases
As the understanding of the body increased, so did the development of new medicines. as people started to interact with each other through trade and explorations it allowed the spread of global disesase -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells -
Smallpox
an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979. -
smallpox inoculations
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy -
Kill or cure
Edward Jenner is credited with the development of vaccination but in fact it was first introduced into England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1721. She tried a method that was used in Turkey where people deliberately infected themselves with a mild form of smallpox. This was the first form of innoculation -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease -
X-rays
X-rays were discovered in 1895 by the German Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. He was studying cathode rays produced by a recently-invented piece of equipment called a Crooke's tube when he noticed that a fluorescent screen across the room started to glow -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Earle Dickson
Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid -
vaccine developed
First vaccine developed for diphtheria -
test-tube baby
First test-tube baby is born -
Smallpox is eradicated
Smallpox is eradicated -
Period: to
21st century
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Abio Cor Artificial Heart
In July 2001,a group of surgeons from Louisville. Kentucky managed to implant a new-generation artificial heart in a patient.Dubbed AbioCor,the device was implanted in a man who suffered from heart failure.The artificial heart was developed by Abiomed,Inc. -
The Smoke Free Law
In 2003 only 75 cities in the U.S had law that prohibited smoking in restaurants,in attempt to lower the number of people affected by second hand smoke along with improving the indoor air quality. -
The Human Genome Project
A draft of the human Genome Project was released in 2000.The HGP was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up human DNA.They mapped all the genes of the Human Genome from a physical and a functional stand point. -
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
William Gahl
William Gahl recently set up the Undiagnosed Diseases Program to hunt for the answer to mysterious diseases that have defied all other medical experts.
