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Period: 500 to
Medical History
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1347
Black Death
This illness was spread by rats and further medical research shows that the bubonic plague could have been prevented by soap and water. -
Sep 8, 1400
Medical Books
Red Book of Hergest, was the most popular book that consisted of medical remmodies that used herbs from gardens. These herbal cures were used by doctors back then and were the end of the time of folk medicine. These books were usually developed in monastaries. -
Sep 8, 1400
Dissection of the human body
Criminals and sinners were punished by being the experiment of human dissections. -
Sep 8, 1452
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci studied the body and stressed the fact that most of the information would be recovered by observing the body. He created atomical drawings of the body and sat in on many autopsies. -
Use of scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke - Reflective Microscope
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination
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Louis Pasteur (microbiology) - pasteruization of milk
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Joseph Lister - practice of medical asepsis
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The discovery of importance of hand washing
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Period: to
Modern World
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Bubonic plague hits San Fransisco
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Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, raduim for cancer treatment, MRI, and CAT scans
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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First HMO insurance
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Salk discovers polio vaccine
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
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Small Pox
The discovery and distinction of the small pox virus is very important in history because that was a very dangerous illness in the Middle ages. Being able to know what it is helps the diagnosis and prognosis of such illness. This also leads to a cure for this illness.
