Med 1 Block 6

By Bailey Weber
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle Ages

  • Jun 19, 659

    Dental Amalgams

    This is the first tooth filling ever recorded.
  • Apr 10, 754

    The first Pharmacy

    The first Pharmacy
    A pharmacy is where they would make the medicine prescribed.
  • Sep 6, 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and small pox.
  • Mar 16, 1000

    Surgery becomes a profession

    Now you can get paid to do surgery on an injured person.
  • Sep 17, 1289

    The medical school at Montpellier was founded

    This is a place where students could go and study medicine.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • May 7, 1347

    Black Death was discovered and named.

    This is a disease that wiped out thousands of people.
  • Mar 16, 1400

    Medical Books

    Medical Books
    A book was published with all the herb remedies in it.
  • Apr 18, 1452

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    He was a doctor that stressed that we would learn more by studying the human body, than reading about it.
  • Mar 9, 1487

    Epidemic Discovery

    Girolamo Fracsstoro made the conclusion that diseases were not caused by the body, that they were caused by outside forces.
  • Feb 19, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    He published the book " The Fabric of the Body".

  • Small Pox Epidemic

  • Yellow fever appears in Charleston and Philadelphia

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • René Laënnec

    René Laënnec
    He invented the stethoscope.

  • Horace Wells

    Horace Wells
    He uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic on one of his dental patients.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell
    She was the first woman to earn a medical degree.

  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    He publishes the book Antiseptic Principle. It says that the operation room should be clean. Many hospitals had less infection g]deaths afterwards.

  • First vaccine for Cholera

  • First vaccine for Anthrax

  • First vaccine for rabies.

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • The cardiac pacemaker was invented

    The cardiac pacemaker was invented
    This device is used to control abnormal heartbeats.

  • The first successful kidney transplant between two people who were not twins

  • First successful heart transplant

  • CT scans were invented

    CT scans were invented
    These scans look inside the human body.

  • HIV is first recognized

    HIV is first recognized
    HIV stands for, human immunodeficiency virus. This virus can be very life threatening.