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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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659
Dental Amalgams
One of the most important contributions to medicine from medieval China was to creation of amalgams for dental procedures. A text from the year 659 details the first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin. The process was not used in Europe until the 16th century. -
754
Pharmacies
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754. As one medieval Arabic physician said these were places for “the art of knowing the materia medica simples in their various species, types and shapes. From these, the pharmacist prepares compounded medications as prescribed and ordered by the prescribing physician.” -
1200
Cleaning wounds
Ancient medical writers believed that during surgery some pus should remain in the wounds, thinking that this would aid in its healing. This idea remained widespread until the 13th-century surgeon Theodoric -
1200
Anatomy and dissection
Many historians have believed that knowledge about anatomy stagnated in the Middle Ages. However, there is a great deal of evidence that medieval physicians were conducting experiments and examining the anatomy of the human body. -
1224
The influence of Gelen
Galen was the most influential ancient physician during the Middle Ages. He held undisputed authority over medicine in the Middle Ages. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1349
The Back Death
The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague or the Plague, or less commonly the Black Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351 -
1519
Leonardo Da Vinci
He was born in Italy and lived from 1452 to 1519. He was skilled in many fields. He was an expert in anatomy. He dissected human corpses to study tendons, bones, and muscles. He was permitted to study human corpses in some hospitals by dissecting them. He was able to create an over 100 pages book that had notes and illustrations about the anatomy of the human body. -
1568
William Harvey
Publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart -
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
It changed the way people look at things and how then they discovered new things -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Period: to
Industrial Revoltion
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René Laënnec
Invents the stethoscope. -
James Blundell
Performs the first successful transfusion of human blood -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York -
Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood
They both developed the syringe -
Joseph Lister
Developed the use of antiseptic surgical methods and publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
He introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Earle Dickson
H einvented the first band-aid -
Sir Alexander Fleming
He discovers pencilin -
John Hopps
He invented the first cardiac peacmaker -
HIV
The virus that causes AIDS, is identified -
Human genome
First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three years later. -
Period: to
21st Century
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The cause of cancer
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
Skin cells
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
Scientists Peer Into Mind With Functional MRI
Mind-reading has moved from carnival attraction to the halls of medicine with what is known as a functional MRI. -
Scinetist reserch a woolly mammoth
In March, DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
