Med 1 Block 7

By jillycole
  • 500

    Veins and Arteries

    The difference between veins and arteries is defined; this is important because these two things though similar have different functions.
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299

    Middle Ages

  • Aug 19, 754

    First Pharmacy

    The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad. Pharmacies supply medicine and prescriptions from doctors, for the sick and/or injured.
  • Aug 19, 910

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Rhazes, a Persian physician, was the first to identify smallpox, different from measles, and suggested that blood is the cause of the infectious disease.
  • Aug 19, 1030

    Influential Encyclopedia

    The Cannon of Medicine is an encyclopedia that summarized the medical traits of the Greek, Indian, and Muslim doctors up until that time. This text changed the game for the medical field during that time because there were no other books to read about medicine at that time.
  • Aug 19, 1215

    First Physician Teacher

    First Physician Teacher
    Alderotti became first physician teacher, an in sharing his knowledge enabled others to help and diagnose those in need.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Aug 19, 1452

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Leonardo Da Vinci studied the body and stressed the fact that most of the information would be recovered by observing the body. He created anatomical drawings of the body and sat in on multiple autopsies.
  • Aug 19, 1487

    Epidemic Discovery

    Girolamo Fracsstoro was the first to realize that plagues and epidemics were not caused by the body. He was the first person to propose the idea that there was i fact an outside source that would cause the epidemics.
  • Aug 19, 1543

    First Anatomy Book

    Andreas Vesalius was the first writer and publisher of an Anatomy book. This gives others incite to the body and understanding its form and function.

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen
    Zacharius Jannssen, a Dutch lens grinder, invented the microscope. The microscope is something we still use today, and allows us to see very small things such as organisms and viruses.

  • Microscope 2.0

    The microscope was refined and fashioned, and nearly 500 models were made. this made it possible to discovers blood cells and observes animal and plant tissues and microorganisms.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Edward invented a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus (smallpox vaccine).

  • René Laënnec

    René Laënnec
    René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.

  • Cholera Vaccine

    First vaccine for cholera.

  • Rabies Vaccine

    First vaccine for rabies.

  • Typhoid Vaccine

    First vaccine for typhoid fever.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health. Receives the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

  • Edward Mellanby

    Edward Mellanby
    Edward Mellanby discovers vitamin D and shows that without it, rickets are caused.

  • Pertussis Vaccine

    First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough).

  • Penicillin 1st

    Penicillin was given to its first patient.

  • Penicillin Resistance

    Antibiotic resistance happens naturally. When an antibiotic is used, bacteria that can resist that antibiotic have a better chance of remaining than the ones that are "susceptible."