History of Medicine

By denjay15
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discovered difference between measles and smallpox.
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
  • 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon invents spectacles.
  • 1250

    Magnifying Glass

    Magnifying Glass
    Roger Bacon constructed the first magnifying glass. The magnifying power of chips of crystal had been known for centuries, but this was the first convex lens designed for scientific purposes. By about 1280, similar lenses would be used to correct farsightedness; now, they are crucial in surgery.
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1489

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Leonardo Da Vinci dissects corpses.

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.

  • 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.

  • Reflective Microscope

    Reflective Microscope
    Allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria

  • Bacteria

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described bacteria.

  • Plague Fleas

    Plague Fleas
    Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Claudius Aymand

    Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy.

  • James Blundell

    James Blundell
    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.

  • Cholera

    First vaccine developed for cholera.

  • Anthrax

    First vaccine developed for anthrax.

  • Rabies

    Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccine for rabies but did not work.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups.

  • Insulin

    Insulin
    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Polio Vaccine

    Polio Vaccine
    Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine

  • AIDS

    The virus that causes AIDS is identified.

  • Artificial Kidney Dialysis Machine

    The artificial kidney dialysis machine was invented.

  • Human Genome

    Human Genome
    The first draft of the human genome was announced. Three years later, it was declared complete three years later.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Adaptive Artificial Knee

    The Rheo knee, a plastic prosthetic joint that adapts to a user's walking style and changes in terrain, was produced by the Ossur Corporation.

  • Artificial Liver

    Artificial Liver
    Dr. Colin McGucklin and Dr. Nico Forraz of Newcastle University developed a liver grown from stem cells. The size of a small coin, it was not an organ that could be implanted in a human.

  • Cancer

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Womb Transplant

    The first womb transplant takes place.