History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Rhazes discovered the difference between measles and smallpox
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
  • 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    Roger Bacon invents spectacles
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • Microscope invented

    Allowed for study of microscopic organisms
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Period: to

    21st Century