Medical history

  • 2600 BCE

    Egyptians find a diagnosis treatment of 200 diseases

    2600 BC The Egyptian Imhotep describes the diagnosis and treatment of 200 diseases
  • 500 BCE

    distinguish veins from arteries

    500 BC Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
  • 300

    Diocles writes the first known anatomy book

    300 BC Diocles wrote the first known anatomy book
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    middle ages

  • 659

    Dental Amalgams was created

    Dental Amalgams was created
    the first substance used as a filling for your teeth
  • 910

    small pox is founded by a physician named Rhazes.

    910 Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
  • 1160

    Hildegard of Bingen

    wrote "simple book of medicine"
  • 1171

    Moshe ben Maimon

    Moshe ben Maimon
    he was a Jewish physician
    .
  • 1200

    Ophthalmology and optics was discovered

    Anatomy of the Eye
  • 1246

    Abraham of Aragon

    physician. is particularly better at eye disease
  • 1301

    development of universities for the medical field

    By the 14th Century, universities had developed in Western Europe that could be classed as medical schools where students could study under a master physician.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    renaissance

  • 1315

    Anatomy and dissection

    to cut things out or to pieces and observe different parts of it.
  • 1348

    the black death

    the black death
    a disease that majorly decreased the population of England.
  • 1489

    corpse dissection

    1489 Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
  • 1493

    new diseases and cures

    The Black Death, killing a third of the population of Europe, simply because it was not mentioned in earlier works, encouraged physicians to attempt new cures.
  • 1493

    Paracelsus

    Paracelsus was one of the prime movers in the shift away from superstition and dogma in medicine, causing Renaissance physicians to rethink how they approached illness.
  • 1500

    Hospitals

    A place where you can go to get diagnosed and treated
  • 1513

    scholars were making a difference

    Muslim scholars had made some major advances in the treatment of disease and injury
  • Dec 31, 1514

    dissection of human bodies

    Andreas Vesalius (December 31, 1514 - October 15, 1564) and Leonardo Da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) dissected human bodies and made detailed drawings of everything, from muscle structure to the heart, increasing the knowledge of anatomy exponentially, helping physicians to understand where the organs were in the body and start to speculate upon their function.
  • discovery of blood cells

    1670 Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
  • Period: to

    Industrial revalution

  • Anesthesia was founded

    basically a numbing medicine
  • Medical imaging is founded

    a visual representation of things. Like an X-ray machine.
  • Period: to

    modern world

  • organ transplants were founded

    the transfer of donated organs put into someone else's body.
  • Stem cell therapy

    therapeutic help for your stem cell
  • Immunotherapy

    it is a system that uses parts of a persons immune system to fight diseases like cancer.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Artificial intelligence

    making machines work and react like humans