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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Jan 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 9, 1200
There may have been as many as 400 hospitals in England.
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1300
Plagues triggered the construction of even more hospitals.
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Sep 9, 1347
The bubonic plague broke out in Istanbul (modern day Turkey).
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Sep 9, 1348
The Black Death was to kill 2/3rds of England’s population
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Sep 9, 1348
The Plague, started off in Asia, and made its way westward, hitting Western and Mediterranean Europe
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Sep 4, 1400
Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Sep 9, 1492
When Christopher and his men arrived in the Caribbean, the area became ridden with deadly epidemics.
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Sep 9, 1510
Ambroise Pare was one of the fathers of modern forensic pathology and surgery
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Sep 9, 1578
William Harvey was the first person to properly describe the systemic circulation and properties of blood
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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The Plaque kept coming back and caused devastation in several areas uptil the 17th century
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Small pox caused over half of Mexico's indigenous population die
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Edward Anthony Jenner created the smallpox vaccine
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Industrial Britain was hit by an outbreak of cholera
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Microbes were discovered by Louis Pasteur
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Period: to
Modern World
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Insulin was discovered
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The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk
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The Heart-Lung Machine was invented
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The first human lung transplant was performed
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The insulin pump was invented
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Rhazes discoverd differences between smallpox and measles
