History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Dec 20, 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    discovered the difference in small pox and measles.
  • Jan 8, 903

    Medical care

    Medical care
    ( text book )Medical care is finally regulated
  • Dec 7, 1398

    Christian's help treat the ill

    Christian's help treat the ill
    ( text book )Christian monasteries are founded to help the ill
  • Dec 1, 1400

    French women denied to practice Medicine

    French women denied to practice Medicine
    (text book)Jacoba Felicie is denied to practice medicine
  • Jan 1, 1500

    herbal medicine first practiced

    herbal medicine first practiced
    http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/medm/hd_medm.htm Herbal medicine first practiced.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    xplorable.com/renaissance-medicine Leonardo Da Vinci dissected humans and made detailed drawing of the body parts
  • Jan 1, 1519

    Andreas Vesaluis

    Helped Leonardo with dissection and also made scientific obersevations about the body.
  • Jan 1, 1520

    churches allow dissection

    churches allow dissection
    xplorable.com/renaissance-medicine Churches allow dissection on criminals either dead or alive
  • Hospitals

    Hospitals
    Renaissance hospitals were created really for the wealthy and were usually sponsered by churches.
  • Von Hohenheim

    A german doctor named Von Hohenhiem had a crazy way to cure black death and that is to drink mercury.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • discovery of anaesthetics

    It was discovered in 1846
  • small pox vaccination

    The disease vaccination was discovered around this time.
  • Felix Hoffmann

    He discovered how to make the pill
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen
    Discovered the X ray break through
  • Blood transfusion

    Blood transfusion
    The blood transfusion was discovered around this time.
  • Period: to

    Modern world

  • Dr. Willem Einthoven

    Dr. Willem Einthoven
    Invented the first electrocardiogram Einthoven
  • Christian Jacobaeus

    Christian Jacobaeus
    Christian Jacob performed the first laparoscopy on a human.
  • first Lobotomy

    It happened in Switzerland in 1910
  • first pacemaker

    first pacemaker
    The first pacemaker was made in 1936 and it was 10 inches wide and one pound.
  • The first kidney transplant

    it happened in a Boston hospital where the patient lived 11 more years.
  • Human Genome

    Human Genome
    The first draft of the human gnome was announced.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Adaptive Artifical knee

    made in 2004 by the Ossur Corporation.
  • Dr. Colin McGucklin and Dr. Nico Forraz

    Dr. Colin McGucklin and Dr. Nico Forraz
    together made the first ever artifical liver and it was grown from cells.
  • Paul Greengard

    Paul Greengard
    Paul furthered our knowledge of signal transduction in the nervous system.
  • cyber Knife

    cyber Knife
    it is a robot that is doing surgical activites which are more accurate then humans.