Medical history

By brooklyne.baird
  • 100

    very early home medicines

    Rauwolfia alkaloids used for bites, insanity
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 550

    Medicine

    Medicine
    colchicum used for Rx joint pain
  • 635

    cancer advances

    now used extirpation rather than cautery for breast cancer.
  • 635

    Surgery practices

    had inguinal hernia surgery; lithotomy for bladder stones;
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
    Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • Jan 1, 1300

    Hospitals

    Hospitals
    By the fourth century the concept of a hospital – a place where patients could be treated by doctors with access to specialized equipment – was emerging in parts of the Roman Empire.
  • 1300

    Medical Practice

    Medical Practice
    A Frenchwoman named Jacoba Felicie was tried for practicing medicine without a license. She was forbidden to practice medicine.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renassance

  • 1315

    anatomical text

    the following year Anathomia corporis humani came out, which is considered the first example of a modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical text.
  • 1377

    quarantine

    The concept of quarantine – to keep groups of people apart so that disease could not spread – began in the aftermath of the Black Death.
  • 1500

    first successful cesarean section

    the first written record of having both a mother and baby surviving a cesarean section.

  • tuberculosis

    in the 18th century in Western Europe, tuberculosis reached its peak with a prevalence as high as 900 deaths per 100,000. Poorly ventilated and overcrowded housing, primitive sanitation, malnutrition and other risk factors led to the rise. The term White plague emerged around this time.
  • Period: to

    Industrial revolution

  • first appendectomy

    first appendectomy
    Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy

  • dysentery

    dysentery
    In the 1700s-1800s, dysentery was a disease causing many deaths. In fact, in some areas in Sweden 90 percent of all deaths were due to dysentery during the worst outbreaks.

  • vaccines

    Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease

  • first successful transfusion

    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • chemotherapy

    The era of cancer chemotherapy began in the 1940s with the first use of nitrogen mustards and folic acid antagonist drugs

  • Polio outbreaks

    Polio outbreaks
    In the early 1950s, before polio vaccines were available, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis each year in the United States.

  • polio vaccines

    Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine

  • CAT-scans

    Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans

  • cloning

    cloning
    Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone

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    21st Century

  • synthetic cells

    the first completely new synthetic cells were created by stitching together chemicals to synthesis the full genome of a bacterium.

  • New prosthetic

    New prosthetic
    European scientists say they've developed a technology that restores natural feeling and improves walking in patients who've had a lower leg amputation.

  • Mark Humayun invents the first bionic eye

    Mark Humayun invents the first bionic eye
    The development of the bionic eye has begun to accelerate in the last few years.

  • A new class of antibiotics

    a University of Lincoln team revealed that it had developed a synthesised version of teixobactin with a much faster and easier synthesis process.

  • Ebola virus

    Zaire ebolavirus is the most fatal Ebola virus. It was associated with the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa, the largest Ebola outbreak to date with more than 28,600 cases, as well as the current ongoing outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (