Med 1 Block 5

By KylieEstes
  • 100

    The first tracheotomy

    The first tracheotomy ( incision in windpipe to made to relieve an obstruction in breathing) was performed by Prasovala in 100
  • 500

    First physican to use acupuncture

    First physican to use acupuncture
    Bian Que becomes the first physician to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis
  • 500

    First time veins distinguished from arteries

    Alcmaecon of Croton distinguished veins and arteries
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle Ages

  • Aug 31, 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
  • Sep 7, 1030

    Most influential medical encyclopedia

    Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which summarized the medicine of Greek, India, and Muslim physicians until that time. It later became an authoritative text in European medical education until early modern period.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 7, 1550

    First hospitals in britain

    In 1550 Britain built 3 small hospitals, which were some of the first hospitals built.

  • Invention of Microscope

    Invention of Microscope
    Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invented the microscope

  • Scientific Method

    Scientific Method
    The use of the scientific method begins

  • Robert Hooke

    invented the reflective microscope
  • Period: to

    industrial revoution

  • Plague fleas discovered

    Plague fleas discovered
    Francis Bacon used the microscope to discover plague fleas.

  • Giacomo Pylarini

    Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox moculations

  • New medical tool invented the stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • First successful blood transfusion

    First successful human blood transfusion performed by James Blundell

  • Outbreak of cholera is stopped

    Outbreak of cholera is stopped
    John Snow stops the outbreak of cholera

  • Bubonic Plague

    Bubonic Plague
    Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • invented the band aid

    invented the band aid
    Earle Dickson invented the band aid

  • First time insulin is used to treat diabetes

    insulin is used for the first time to treat diabetes

  • First polio vaccine

    Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine

  • Gardasil approved by FDA

    Gardasil approved by FDA
    Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA

  • First Artificial Heart

    First Artificial Heart
    The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24, patient died on August 23.