History of Medicine

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  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes discovered the difference between small pox and measles.
  • Ibn an-Nafis
    1242

    Ibn an-Nafis

    Ibn an-Nafis suggest that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separated and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation
  • 1249

    Roger Bacon writes about convex lens spectacle for treating long-sightedness

  • Hospital Santa Maria Nuova is founded in Florence and is strictly medical
    1288

    Hospital Santa Maria Nuova is founded in Florence and is strictly medical

  • 1300

    concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy

  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1305

    Human anatomical studies allowed

  • Use of scientific method begins

  • Printing Press

    Allowed for publication of medical discoveries.
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner develpos the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur identifies germs as clause of disease.

  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays

  • First vaccin developed for typhoid fever

  • First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
  • Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid

    Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • The first heart transplant is performed by Christiaan Barnard

  • MRI scanning is introduced

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Jean-Michel Dubernard performs the first partial face transplant

  • First HPV vaccine approved

  • Fist vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant

    Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant

  • The first artificial pancreas was created

    The first artificial pancreas was created