History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 659

    Dental Amalgams

  • 800

    Created Hospitals

    Created Hospitals
  • 1100

    Ophthalmology

  • 1300

    Cleaning Wounds

  • 1300

    Trotula

    Trotula
    wrote about the ailments of women
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1315

    Anatomy

  • 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    He made many discovers in the medical field.
  • 1550

    Michael Servetus

    Michael Servetus
    He was also a physician.
  • Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    He was a physician and an anatomist.
  • New medicines with the new lands

  • Small pox

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • John Hunter

    John Hunter
    founder of pathological anatomy
  • Louis Pasteur

    medical microbiology
    discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease
    originated the process of pasteurization
    developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    founder of antiseptic medicine and a pioneer in preventive medicine
  • First vaccine for rabies

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • First Human Blood transfusion

  • Insulin first used for diabetes

    Insulin first used for diabetes
  • First vaccine for tuberculosis

  • First vaccine for typhus

  • John Gibbon

    John Gibbon
    Gibbon's development of the heart-lung machine made possible the first successful open-heart operation
  • first draft of human genome

    first draft of human genome
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • a mini liver

    is generated from human cord blood stem cells by doctors at Newcastle University, U.K.
  • discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells

    discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
  • Wearable artificial kidney approved by the FDA

  • Thomas Manning

    Received first genital transplant