Medical History

By LilMun
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Rhazes
    Feb 3, 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes discovers the difference between small pox and measles
  • May 4, 1000

    Medical Care becomes regulated

  • Oct 31, 1157

    One of the first non-biased health care univeristies

    Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier permitted anyone who had a medical license to teach there, regardless of religion or background
  • Islamic hospitals
    Mar 28, 1300

    Islamic hospitals

    Health care for the sick is created
  • Apr 8, 1350

    Christian Monasteries founded to treat the ill

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Scientific Method begins to be used

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Develops reflective microscope

  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

    Describes bacteria
  • Using the microscope plague fleas are discovered

    Using the microscope plague fleas are discovered

  • Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope

    Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of hand washing
  • John Snow

    John Snow

    John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
  • Bubonic Plague

    Bubonic Plague

    Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • MRI, and CAT scans are invented

    MRI, and CAT scans are invented

  • Alex Fleming Discovers penicillin

    Alex Fleming Discovers penicillin

  • Salk discovers polio vaccine

  • WHO declares smallpox eradicated

  • AZT is used to combat AIDS

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment

  • The Human Genome project

    The Human Genome project

    Identified all of the 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA.

  • Gardasil approved by the FDA to help fight cervical cancer

  • Embryonic stem cells

    Scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
  • First FDA approved AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24

    First FDA approved AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24

    Patient died august 23

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