History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 659

    dentist / tooth filling

    dentist / tooth filling
  • 754

    first pharmacy

    first pharmacy
  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
  • 1200

    Ophthalmology and optics

    Ophthalmology and optics
    believed humans could see through invisible beams of light.
  • 1231

    Medical education in universities

    Medical education in universities
    frederick 2 made a new set of laws concerning medical education standards
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1305

    First eyeglasses

    First eyeglasses
    By the end of 13th century the product was very well know.
  • 1315

    Anatomy and dissection

    Anatomy and dissection
    First public dissection for students and spectators.
  • 1478

    Girolamo Fracastoro

    Girolamo Fracastoro
    Italian doctor that suggested the epidemics may come from pathogens outside the body. (Indirect to direct)
  • 1500

    Cesarean Sections

    Cesarean Sections
    the first written record of a mother and baby surviving a cesarean section
  • 1541

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    wrote a influential books on human anatomy. dissected a corpse and examined it.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • James Lind

    James Lind
    Discovered that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
  • Edward Jones

    Edward Jones
    a method to prevent people from smallpox.
  • René laënnec

    Invents stethoscope
  • Blood transfusion

    First succesfsul transfushion of human blood
  • nitrous oxide

    Dentist uses nitrous oixde as an anesthetic.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
  • diphtheria

    diphtheria
    First vaccine for diphtheria
  • Whooping cough

    Whooping cough
    First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough).
  • tuberculosis

    First vaccine for tuberculosis.
  • Measles

    Firstvaccine for measles.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • partial face transplant

    partial face transplant
    Jean michel dubernard did the first half face transplant.
  • HPV

    HPV
    the first HPV vaccine approved
  • Kidney

    Kidney
    The first kidney was grown in vitro in the U.S
  • penis transplant

    First man to receive a penis transplant
  • 3D printer

    3D printer
    3d print heart from human patients cells