Med 1 Block 5

By seththompson
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle Ages

  • Sep 2, 659

    Dental Amalgams

    China started to use a substance for tooth fillings, made from silver and tin.
  • Aug 31, 754

    First Pharmacy

    The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad.
  • Aug 31, 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
  • Sep 2, 1020

    Ammar ibn 'Ali al-Mawsili

    Performed the first successful eye surgery.
  • Sep 2, 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    Roger Bacon invents the spectacles to help patients see better.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 7, 1423

    Island of Santa Maria Di Nazaret

    The Island of Santa Maria Di Nazaret was made into a hospital in order to isolate contagious patients from the rest of the population.
  • Sep 2, 1489

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Starts to dissect corpses to learn more about the human body.
  • Sep 2, 1510

    Ambroise Pare

    Pioneered the treatment of gunshot wounds.
  • Sep 9, 1543

    Human Anatomy

    Vesalius publishes his findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani.

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen
    Invented the microscope to look at small substances more closely.

  • Anton Van Leeunwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeunwenhoek
    Discovers blood cells.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Claudius Aymand

    Performs the first successful appendectomy.

  • Typhoid fever

    First vaccine developed for typhoid fever.

  • Bubonic Plage

    First vaccine developed for Bubonic Plague.

  • Felix Hoffman

    Felix Hoffman
    Develops aspirin
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Diphtheria

    First vaccine developed for diphtheria.

  • Whooping cough

    First vaccine developed for whooping cough.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Discovers penicillin

  • John Hopps

    Invented the first cardiac pacemaker.

  • HIV

    HIV
    HIV, which causes AIDS, is identified.