Med 1 Blk 7

By Kitty201
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle Age

  • Jan 1, 750

    Hospitals and Pharmacies

    During this time period hospitals and pharmacies were training people who wanted a medical training license so they can work there.
  • Jan 1, 754

    First Pharmacy

    On 754 in Baghdad the first pharmacy was established. Foundations were runned by the state.
  • Jan 1, 1027

    Avicenna

    1027, Avicenna writes a book called Kitab al-Shifa, also known as the Book of Healing. In it he talks about the laws of medicine.
  • Jan 1, 1100

    Trepanning

    1100, a successful surgery was preformed on a guys skull. A hard object hit and shattered most of his skull. They used a process called trepanning, where a hole is drilled and a part of the skull is lifted up allowing the doctors to get the broken bones out.
  • Jan 1, 1149

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    She was the first female to get a medical degree.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Jan 1, 1539

    The Vennesection Letter

    1539 a book was published, called The Vennesection Letter. It talks about bloodletting ( a way to cure most diesease).
  • Jan 1, 1539

    Mercury Cure

    The Mercury Cure was discovered in the year of 1541 by a German physician named Philippus Aureolos Theophrastus Bombast Von Hohenheim, also known as Paracelsus. Drinking mercury cures diseases.

  • William Harvey

    Published the Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and Blood of Animals, which was the base of future analysis of the heart, arteries, and blood vessels.

  • Blood Cells Discovery

    Blood cells were discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek in the 1670's. He also made the microscope better.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Treatise of the Scurvy

    It was published in 1754 by James Lind. Its about how citrus fruits keep you from lacking vitamin C.

  • The Stethoscope

    1816 the Stethoscope was invented by René Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Yellow fever

    1935 was the time we got the first vaccination for yellow fever.

  • First Blood Bank

    Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bankat Cook County Hospital.

  • First test tube baby

    The first test-tube baby was born in the United Kingdom in 1978.

  • Jarvic-7 Artificial Heart

    Dr. William Devries places the Jarvic-7 fake heart into his patient Barney Clark who lived up to 112 years old.