medical history

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    middle ages

  • Jan 1, 700

    black death

    The black death killed more than one third of the population of Europe.
  • hospitals were invented
    Mar 7, 753

    hospitals were invented

    the hospital was able to help many patients.
  • Apr 9, 1198

    Averroés

    was a doctor in the middle ages and wrote about medicine.
  • Arnaldus Villanovanus
    Jan 1, 1292

    Arnaldus Villanovanus

    wrote medical books an terminology
  • Guy De Chauliac
    Feb 7, 1300

    Guy De Chauliac

    he was the first surgeon
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    renaissance

  • Jan 4, 1304

    cure

    mercury cued the black death
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    Feb 12, 1519

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    from Italy, was skilled in several different fields. He became an expert in anatomy and made studies of tendons, muscles, bones, and other features of the human body.
  • May 6, 1521

    Maggot therapy

    is a type of biotherapy involving the introduction of live, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wound(s) of a human or animal for the purpose of cleaning out the necrotic (dead) tissue within a wound (debridement) and disinfection.
  • Girolamo Fracastoro
    Feb 3, 1553

    Girolamo Fracastoro

    an Italian doctor and scholar, suggested that epidemics may come from pathogens outside the body. He proposed that these might pass from human-to-human by direct or indirect contact.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    was an English physician who was the first to describe accurately how blood was pumped around the body by the heart.
  • Period: to

    industrial revolution

  • Giacomo Pylarini

    Giacomo Pylarini

    gives the first smallpox inoculations
  • cure for scurvy

    that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
  • Claudius Aymand

    Claudius Aymand

    performs the first successful appendectomy
  • stethoscope

    stethoscope is invented to hear the heart beats
  • William Morton

    William Morton

    is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
  • Period: to

    modern world

  • new vaccine

    First vaccine developed for diphtheria.
  • Another new vaccine

    First vaccine developed for influenza
  • Thomas Fogarty

    Thomas Fogarty

    invented the balloon embolectomy catheter
  • Willem J. Kolff

    Willem J. Kolff

    invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine
  • First clone

    First clone

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • mapping done

    completed mapping of human genome
  • connie culp

    connie culp

    full face transplant done in the USA
  • crisper invented

    crisper invented

    genetic editing
  • prosthetic

    3d printed prosthetic