History Of Medicine

By cassy
  • 500

    Eye surgery

    Eye surgery
    performed using a technique called "needling". Flat edge of needle would push against cornea of eye and remove cataract.
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle ages

    they used radish, Bishop wort, garlic, wormwood, helenium, crop-leek and hollow-leek. pounded them up and boil them in butter with celandine and red nettle. strain through cloth and rub on aching joints. The most important aspect of medical treatment was the theory of the four humors which was blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
  • 754

    pharmacies

    Apparently having pharmacies development of knowledge about drugs and how they could be made.
  • 865

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Rhazez was a Persian physician, scholar, and philosopher.
  • 910

    smallpox

    Rhazes the Persian physician identified smallpox and says blood is the cause of disease.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

    some of the medical practices were, Trepanation and trephine,bloodletting, and maggot therapy, The emphasis of Renaissance art became the most important advance to modern medicine as artists made drawings of human bodies.
  • 1315

    Mondino De Luzzi

    Mondino De Luzzi
    Italian physician who conducted a public human dissection for his students/spectators.
  • 1322

    Jacoba Felicie

    tried to practice with medicine but was forbidden to do so.
  • Microscope

    Microscope
    Zacharius Jannsen invented the microscope.
  • blood cells

    blood cells were discovered.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Stethoscope

    Stethoscope
    The first stethoscope was invented.
  • Blood Transfusion

    James Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion.
  • syringe

    Irish physician named Francis Rynd.
  • Germs identified as diseases.

    Germs identified as diseases.
    Discovered by a french chemist named Louis Pasteur.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • cardiac pacemaker

    Created by Paul Zoll.
  • Heart Transplant

    The first human heart transplant was performed by christian.
  • First test tube baby

    First test tube baby
    First test tube baby was born
  • small pox is eradicated

    small pox is eradicated
    small pox was put to an end.
  • HIV

    HIV was discovered by Robert Charles Gallo
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • First cancer vaccine

    first vaccine to target cancer.
  • digital diabetes tracker

    digital diabetes tracker
    tracker goes on the patient and is able to track the diabetes on an electronic device.
  • clinical trials of CRISPR

    CRISPR is a way to get into an unborn babies DNA and change it to make the child have traits the parents want.
  • cancer immunotherapy approved

    The FDA approved to have the immunotherapy which causes to destroy more cancer cells.
  • Telehealth

    Telehealth
    Telehealth is a way to communicate with patients over the phone and treat them.