History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 659

    dental advancements

    filled teeth with tin and silver
  • 754

    pharmacy

    aided the knowledge of drugs and how they are made
  • 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between the measles and smallpox
  • 965

    Ibn al-Haythman

    developed new optical and ophthalmology ideas
  • 1231

    medical education

    started teaching common medical knowledge in universities
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renassiance

  • 1352

    eye glasses

    eye glasses
    created this to help correct vision
  • 1519

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    he dissected the first human body
  • William Harvey

    begins the basis for modern heart and blood vessel research
  • Reflective Microscope

    it allowed study or microorganism like bacteria.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    discovers blood cells
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • vaccines

    started with the cure of smallpox and then kept becoming a greater used product which eventually wiped many viruses off the earth
  • Rene Laennec

    invents stethoscope
  • anesthesia

    used ether as an anesthetic which made surgeries bearable
  • Louis Pasteur

    invented the germ theory
  • Wilhelm Conrad

    invented the x-ray
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexander Fleming

    discovered penicillin
  • Paul Zoll

    develops pacemaker for irregular heartbeats
  • antiviral drugs

    works to block rapid reproductions of virus
  • organ transplant

    first successful kidney transplant
  • stem cell therapy

    be used to make any kind of cell
  • human genome

    first draft is made
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • artificial heart

    artificial heart transplant was successful
  • Bernard Devauchelle

    Bernard Devauchelle
    performed first face transplant
  • Ian Frazer

    developed HPV vaccine
  • artificial kidney and liver

    created from human stem cells