history of medicine

By raegen2305
  • Period: 500 to 1300

    middle ages

  • 900

    rhazes

    discovered the difference between measles and small pox
  • 910

    discovery of small pox

    rhazes identifies small pox
  • 1010

    Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine

  • medical schools were all throughout europe
    1200

    medical schools were all throughout europe

  • spectacles are invented
    1249

    spectacles are invented

    helped people see
  • Period: 1301 to

    renassance

  • 1340

    black death

    the black death started spreading and no one could stop it
  • Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
    1489

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • new lands, new diseases

    new lands, new diseases

    the settlers met the Indians disease spread like wildfire

  • Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions

    which that lead to the study of blood transfusions today

  • microscope invented

    allowed for study for microscopic organisms

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

  • Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations

    the first small pox vaccination
  • Period: to

    industiral revolution

  • john hunter

    john hunter

    founder of pathological anatomy

  • the first successful human blood transfusion was done

  • living conditions in the industrial revolution

    living conditions in the industrial revolution

    people were so cramped that there was sewage near the water supply and that is when disease spread everywhere

  • Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

    figures out the first aniceptic

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
  • Period: to

    modern world

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner

    introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
  • First vaccine developed for diphtheria.

    First vaccine developed for diphtheria.

  • First vaccine developed for tuberculosis

  • First vaccine developed for whooping cough

  • Smallpox is eradicated

  • Period: to

    21st century

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • James Thompson and Jeffery Jones

    James Thompson and Jeffery Jones

    discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.

  • bionic limbs

    first advanced prosthetic that communicates with the mins

  • fda

    The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California.
  • woolly mammoth

    woolly mammoth

    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.