Medical Timeline

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

    -Science began to replace superstitions for illness
    -Rhaze discovers the difference between small pox and measles
    -Physicians started getting licensed after formal training
    - Scores of hospitals in the muslim world -women werent allowed to practice medicine
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

    -Scientific method comes into use
    -microscope is invented
    -Robert Hooke builds the first reflecting microscope
    - studies of human anatomy took place
    -easing of the legal and cultural restrictions on dissecting cadavers
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    Industrial revolution

    -Stethoscope was invented
    -Blood cells, bacteria, and protozoa could be seen
    -connections between health and enviroments were made
    -Start of modern bacteriology
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    Modern World Starts

    -discoveries in electronics and computer science changed clinical medicine dramatically
    -Antibiotics were invented
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    21st century