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  • Period: 500 to Sep 12, 1299

    Middle ages

  • Jan 24, 659

    dental amalgams

    its one of the most important contributions to medicine from medieval china was to creation of amalgams for dental procedures
  • Jan 24, 754

    pharmacies

    pharmacies
    The first pharmacy was established in baghdad. As one medieval Arabic physician said these were places for the art of knowing the materia medica simples in there various species types and shapes.
  • Jan 24, 900

    Rhazes

    discovered the difference between small pox and measles
  • Jan 24, 1200

    hospitals

    hospitals
    by the fourth century the concept of a hospital- a place where patients could be treated by doctors with access specialized equipment.
  • Jan 24, 1256

    cleaning wounds

    ancient medical writers believed that during surgery some pus should remain in the wounds. Thinking that this would aid in its healing
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Jan 24, 1347

    Bubonic Plauge begins

    The black plauge killed about 1.5 million people from the total 4 million in Europe in that time. Since there was know medical knowledge about the disease there was no way of stopping it from spreading and killing.
  • Jan 24, 1350

    renaissance begins

    The age of renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century. Beginning in Italy in the late middle ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.
  • Jan 24, 1465

    Pope Pius II

    Pope Pius II
    He made the first to make official use to use an idea of Europa . He divided Europe, Asia, and Africa into Continents.
  • Jan 24, 1492

    Columbus lands in the Caribbeans

    Columbus lands in the Caribbeans
    Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbeans. After a long journey across the Atlantic ocean. He landed in what he thought was India.
  • Thermometer

    Galileo invented the first thermometer. The instrument was not accurate in its readings but it was one of the first scientific tools used to measure.
  • Period: to

    Industrial revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    trained as a doctor in London. He set up practice in Gloucestershire. And like other doctors offered smallpox inoculation to his patients.
  • Rene Laennec

    invented the stethoscope, perfected the art auditory examination of the chest cavity
  • The development of anaesthetics

    The development of anaesthetics
    During the 18th and 19th century scientist experimented with the properties of chemicals and the effect they had on humans. also Humphrey Davy invented the safety lamp for miners discovered that pain could be reduced by using laughing gas.
  • Louis pasteur

    Was a medical microbiology discovered that microorganism causes fermentation and diseases originated the process pasteurization developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax.
  • Robert Koch

    founder of bacteriology discovered the anthrax disease cycle discovered the bacteria responsible for TB and cholera Nobel prize in physiology and medicine.
  • Period: to

    Modern world