Medical Investigations 1

By briwhelchel
  • 500

    Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries

  • Period: 500 to

    Medical History

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Sep 9, 1010

    Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine

    Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • Sep 9, 1249

    Roger Bacon invents spectacles

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Sep 9, 1300

    Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick

    Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
  • Sep 9, 1400

    Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied

    Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
  • Sep 9, 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • Sep 9, 1543

    Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani

  • Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Use of scientific method begins

  • Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination

    Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination

  • Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis

  • Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of handwashing

    Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of handwashing

  • john Snow stops outbreak of cholera

  • First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur

  • Period: to

    Modern Time

  • First test-tube baby is born

  • AZT is used to combat AIDS

  • Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine

    Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cance

  • The first FDA approved implanted Abiocor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24th and died August 23

    The first FDA approved implanted Abiocor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24th and died August 23

  • Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles