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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle ages
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Sep 11, 700
Medical School
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Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and small pox -
Sep 8, 910
Small Pox
The discovery and distinction of the small pox virus is very important in history because that was a dangerous illness in the middle ages. -
Sep 8, 1140
Roger of Sicily
Forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license, in indicating that doctors were clearly under some form of regulation. -
Sep 8, 1157
Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier
Permitted to anyone who had a medical license to teach there regardless of religion or backround -
Sep 8, 1200
Caduceus
Asclepius Greek God of healing; Caduceus is the symbol for medicine -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1300
Pain becomes important
Pain is considered a symptom and is watched carefully and used in the diagnosis of disease and conditions. -
Sep 8, 1346
Plague
The plague ravaged Europe, and rich and poor alike succumbed with terrifying speed. -
Sep 8, 1347
Black death
The largest plague wiping out almost half of the population of the time. -
Sep 11, 1347
An outbreak of Bubonic Plague broke out in...
An outbreak of Bubonic Plague broke out in -
Sep 11, 1400
French Woman Jacoba Felicie
Tries to practice medicine but its denied -
Sep 11, 1510
French surgeon Ambroise Pare
Considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology. -
Sep 11, 1578
William Harvey
English medical doctor physical -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccine for smallpox -
Code of Hammurbi
Sets out fees for surgeons and punishments for malpractice. -
James Blundell
Performs the first successful transfusion of human blood. -
Emil von Behring
Discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetnaus and diptheria vaccines -
Wilhelm Von Roentgen
Discovered x-rays -
Period: to
Modern World
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Dr. Paul Dudley White
Americas first cardiologists -
Edward Mellanby
Discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets -
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins. -
Dr. William DeVries
implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days. -
The FDA
Approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologie....
