Medical History

By cyerayounger
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 910

    Smallpox

    Smallpox
    Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox.
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
    Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
  • 1020

    First Successful Eye Surgery

    First Successful Eye Surgery
    Ammar ibn `Ali al-Mawsili performed the first successful eye surgery. Using a needle and removing a cataract.
  • 1249

    Spectacles

    Spectacles
    Roger Bacon invents spectacles.
  • 1260

    Hospital for the Blind

    Hospital for the Blind
    Louis IX established Les Quinze-vingt; originally a retreat for the blind, it became a hospital for eye diseases, and is now one of the most important medical centers in Paris.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1489

    Corpse

    Corpse
    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses.
  • 1536

    Wounds

    Wounds
    Ambroise Pare mixes egg whites, rose oil and turpentine to put on wounds.

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.

  • Canine Blood Transfusions

    Canine Blood Transfusions
    Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions.

  • Blood Cells

    Blood Cells
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Smallpox Vaccine

    Smallpox Vaccine
    Benjamin Waterhouse introduces the smallpox vaccine to the United States

  • Stethescope

    Stethescope
    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever.

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    John Collins Warren provides the first public demonstration of anesthesia in surgery.

  • Appendicitis

    Appendicitis
    Reginald Heber Fitz provides the first clinical description of appendicitis.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Paul Dudley White

    Paul Dudley White
    Paul Dudley White introduces the electrocardiograph to the United States.

  • Insulin

    Insulin
    Elliott Joslin introduces insulin to the United States.

  • Heart Valve Surgery

    Heart Valve Surgery
    Eliot Cutler performs the world’s first successful heart valve surgery.

  • Hip Bone Fractures

    Hip Bone Fractures
    Marius Smith-Petersen devises a three-flanged nail to secure the bone in hip fractures.

  • First Polio Patient Saved

    First Polio Patient Saved
    Drinker Respirator saves a polio patient at Peter Bent Brigham in collaboration with Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Jean-Michel Dubernard

    Jean-Michel Dubernard
    Jean-Michel Dubernard performs the first partial face transplant.

  • Cancer

    Cancer
    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer.

  • HPV Vaccine

    HPV Vaccine
    First HPV vaccine approved.

  • Leg Transplant

    Leg Transplant
    First leg transplant takes place.

  • Cells

    Cells
    Brigham and Women’s scientists discover a striking subset of T cells that collaborate with other immune cells.