Med 1 Block 5

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  • 550 BCE

    Barber surgeons

    Barber surgeons
    Cut hair, perform surgery; barber pole symbol popularized
  • Period: 500 BCE to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle ages

  • 300 BCE

    First known Anatomy Book

    First known Anatomy Book
    Diocles was the first known writer of the first known anatomy book in the entire world
  • 280 BCE

    Herophilus

    Herophilus
    Studied the nervous system
  • Feb 28, 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discovered the difference in between smallpox and measles.
  • Sep 7, 1010

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
    Wrote the Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renissance

  • Mar 18, 1340

    John of Ardenne

    John of Ardenne
    He is considered one of the Father's of surgery. Also, people described him to be England's very first surgeon but for others the country's "of note."
  • Sep 15, 1489

    Dissecting Corpses

    Dissecting Corpses
    Leonardo da Vinci was the first person to dissect human corpses to study all the body has to offer for us and what everything does. Also, he was wanting to know how everything looked liked too.
  • Nov 10, 1490

    Alessandro Achillini

    Alessandro Achillini
    Discovered the 4th cranial nerve and and the function of the 1st pair of cranial nerves. He also has a published book called "Anatomical Notes By the Great Alexander Achillinus of Bologna."
  • Sep 7, 1543

    Vesalius

    Vesalius
    Publishes the findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen
    Invented the microscope
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • University's

    University's
    4 of 24 were dominant at this time and point. These university's were in Montepellier, Paris, Toulouse, and Strasbourg. However, there were only 20 physicians in Russia all together so they made another school up there to help with the Russo-Polish War.

  • First Successful Appendectomy

    First Successful Appendectomy
    The first successful appendectomy was performed by Claudius Aymand

  • James Lind

    James Lind
    Is a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. He publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy in 1754, identifying the cure for this common and dangerous disease of sailors, although it takes another 40 years before an official Admiralty order dictates the supply of lemon juice to ships.

  • Sir Humphry Davy

    Sir Humphry Davy
    Announces that anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide, even though dentists didn't use until 45 years later.

  • Felix Hoffman

    Felix Hoffman
    Developed aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid). The juice from willow tree bark had been used as early as 400 BC to relieve pain. 19th century scientists knew that it was the salicylic acid in the willow that made it work, but it irritated the lining of the mouth and stomach. Hoffman synthesizes acetyl salicylic acid, developing what is now the most widely used medicine in the world.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • In vitro fertilisation

    In vitro fertilisation
    First account of virto fertilisation that was successfully done by Min Chueh Chang was in the 1900's.

  • First Human Liver Transplant

    First Human Liver Transplant
    Thomas Starzl was the first surgeon to complete a human liver transplant.

  • Separating Craniopagus Twins

    Separating Craniopagus Twins
    Ben Carson lead a 70 member team in Germany to separate craniopagus twins for the first time ever.

  • Laurent Lantieri

    Laurent Lantieri
    Performed the first ever full face transplant

  • Human Liver

    Human Liver
    Japan grew the first human liver from stem cells