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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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536
Sergius of Reshaina
Christian theologian-physician who translated thirty-two of Galen's works into Syriac and wrote medical treatises of his own -
620
Aaron of Alexandria Syriac
He wrote 30 books on medicine, the "Pandects". He was the first author in antiquity who mentioned the diseases of smallpox and measles -
820
Benedictine
Hospital founded, School of Salerno would grow around it. -
900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between smallpox and measles. -
1242
Ibn an-Nafis
suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1543
Andrea Vesalius
Publishes De Fabrica Corporis Humani which corrects Greek medical errors and revolutionizes European medicine -
1546
Epidemic Diseases
Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable seedlike entities. -
1553
Miguel Serveto
Describes the circulation of blood through the lungs. He is accused of heresy and burned at the stake -
1560
William Fabry von Hilden
Considered the father of surgery in Germany, he was one of the most important surgeons of this period. His main contribution is the
that the amputation should be performed at the level of healthy tissues and not by the gangrenous zone. -
1563
Garcia de Orta
founds tropical medicine with his treatise on Indian diseases and treatments -
Renaissance-Ambrosio Paré
He was the first to describe the femoral neck fracture and epiphyseal detachments in children -
Microscope
was invented, which played a huge part in medical advancement -
Girolamo Fabrici
studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heat -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Percival Pott
He described the fractured ankle that bears his name -
Jossep Clement
Publishes his book medical and surgical gymnastic or the different exercises of the body and rest in the cure of diseases -
Modern Event-Rudolf Virchow
The theoretical basis of cellular pathology is very simple: cells constitute the smallest units of the organism with all the characteristic properties of life -
Emil von Behring
discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. -
Industrial Revolution
Louis Pasteur (microbiology) pasteurization of milk -
Period: to
Modern World
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Alois Alzheimer
identifies the first case of what becomes known as Alzheimer's disease -
Fredrick Hopkins
suggests the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets -
Han Christian Jacobaeus
performs the first laparoscopy on humans -
Tetanus
First vaccine for tetanus -
C. Walton Lillehei
performs the first human pancreas transplant -
Period: to
21st Century
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Carlos Urbani
Of Doctors without Borders alerted the World Health Organization to the threat of the SARS virus, triggering the most effective response to an epidemic in history. Urbani succumbs to the disease himself in less than a month. -
HPV
First HPV vaccine approved. -
Laurent Lantieri
Performs the first full face transplant. -
Artificial pancreas
The first ever artificial pancreas was created -
21st century-FLU
Three medications are chemically related antiviral medications, known as neuraminidase inhibitors, that inhibit the viral neuraminidase enzyme and act against influenza A and B viruses.
