Middle Ages/ Dark Ages

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  • 1500 BCE

    Human anatomy

    Human anatomy
    First scientific textbook on human anatomy published by Andreas Visalius
  • 1400 BCE

    First Medical Universities

    Universitit's began to arise in western Europe that could be classes as medical schools, providing a place where students can learn under a master physician.
  • 1220 BCE

    Trinity Chapel

    When completed the glass of the chapel showed pilgrims suffering from illness Injury and even insanity
  • 1100 BCE

    Poem describing medical practices

    A poem describing the practice of blood letting, which was though to help due to the idea that many diseases were thought to be causes by too much blood
  • 1000 BCE

    Astrology playing a part in medecine

    Astrology playing a part in medecine
    Physicians believed the moon had a great influence on the bodies of people, and used the alignment of the planets and start to help diagnosis ailments
  • 1000 BCE

    John Ardene

    John Ardene
    His studies on eyes and cure for anal fistula helped a lot, anal fistula being increasingly common during his time
  • 860 BCE

    Birth of Rhazes

    First to document anything from the middle ages this being small pox.
  • 850 BCE

    Roger frugard of Parma's Chirugai

    Roger frugard of Parma's Chirugai
    A collection of documents that depicted procedures that helped patients with cuts, wounds, and major lesions.
  • 801 BCE

    Plague Doctors

    Plague Doctors
    With the epidemic of the bubionic plague Doctors needed to protect themselves as they treated patients so they wore bird like masks to help ward of the miasma
  • 800 BCE

    Bubonic Plague

    The bubonic Plague also know was black death killed nearly 75 million people over the course of its first spreading. Before people did not know how it spread and thought it spread througg the air as a miasma.
  • 700 BCE

    Text Documents

    Text Documents
    Documents with examples and diagrams helped doctors infer what their patient had, some with urine hues, where to cut a patient , and how to find out the diagnosis of a patient.
  • 700 BCE

    The Occult

    The Occult
    The occult was a group that used magics and medicines in conjunction to help those in need.
  • 600 BCE

    Church and Religion

    With the falling of Rome and the lag of educational improvement people turned to God and Religion to explain things and help with healing and illness.
  • 500 BCE

    Fall of Rome

    With the fall of Rome and the start of the Middle Ages, city states were in dis unions abandoning the "thinkers" philosophy and joining into superstition on the unknown and religion for help.
  • 500 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates
    The idea of the body having 4 different elements that kept all in balance and the hippocratic oath
  • Period: 500 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Middle ages/ Dark Ages