Medical History

By bayleepembleton
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    The MIddle Ages

  • Jan 1, 700

    Medical Treatment

    Medical Treatment
    One of the main ways of dealing with disease in the Middle Ages was by prayer. Traditional methods of treating disease such as blood-letting, purging with laxatives, changing the diet of the patient, herbal remedies etc., were completely ineffective against the disease.
  • Jan 1, 900

    Mondino de Luzzi

    Mondino de Luzzi
    Mondino de Luzzi started to do dissections in public, also known as surgery.
  • Nov 23, 1010

    Books

    Books
    The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine was written my Avicenna.
  • Jan 4, 1064

    Cleaning Wounds

    Cleaning Wounds
    Theodoric Borgognoni would use wine as a disinfectant and he would soak bandages in it to clean wounds.
  • Jan 1, 1249

    Glasses

    Glasses
    Roger Bacon invents spectacles.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • Microscope

    Microscope
    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Birth

    Birth
    The C-section was discovered/used in the renaissance time period.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria.

  • Laughing Gas

    Laughing Gas
    Laughing gas was discovered.

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    William Harvey published his new theory that the heart pumps blood throughout the body.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Kill or Cure

    Kill or Cure
    Kill or Cure was invented which was a thing were they would inject you with a small form of smallpox.

  • René Laënnec

    René Laënnec
    René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.

  • James Blundell

    James Blundell
    British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.

  • Cholera Vaccine

    Cholera Vaccine
    First vaccine for cholera

  • X-rays

    X-rays
    X-rays were discovered by the German Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Diphtheria Vaccine

    Diphtheria Vaccine
    First vaccine for diphtheria.

  • Yellow Fever Vaccine

    Yellow Fever Vaccine
    First vaccine for yellow fever.

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccination.

  • Cloning

    Cloning
    Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell

  • Dr. William DeVries

    Dr. William DeVries
    Dr. William DeVries implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Carlo Urbani

    Carlo Urbani
    Carlo Urbani, of Doctors without Borders alerted the World Health Organization to the threat of the SARS virus, triggering the most effective response to an epidemic in history. Urbani succumbs to the disease himself in less than a month.

  • Cells

    Cells
    Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.

  • Laurent Lantieri

    Laurent Lantieri
    Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant.

  • 3D Printed Body Parts

    3D Printed Body Parts
    Researchers from Cornell University printed an outer ear that worked like and resembled the real thing. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT have also reproduced blood vessels using similar processes.

  • DNA Transfusion

    DNA Transfusion
    DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.