History of medicine

  • 500

    God causes illness.

    The Christian Church teaches that illness is caused by God.
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    middle ages

  • 525

    Alexander Trallianus

    was one of the most respected and well known physicians of ancient physicians. He wrote many books about disease and medication. A great fraction of the books he wrote became very popular and an important piece of history. Born in 525 and passed in 605.
  • 790

    Leo Itrosophist

    Leo Itrosophist
    Leo was a writer, who wrote pieces that were book-length. He wrote things like poems, epigrams, brought together a wide range of astronomical, medical, and philosophical texts and even put together his own medical encyclopedia. Born in 790 and passed in 869.
  • 910

    Smallpox is identified

    Smallpox is identified
    Persian physician, Rhazes, identifies the disease smallpox.
  • 1100

    Hospitals and schools

    A lot more medical schools and hospitals are built and the medical profession starts to get big and more common.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    renaissance

  • Jan 1, 1348

    The Black Death

    The Black Death
    The Black Death was a massive disease wiped out a large number of people in England. it was treated by lancing the buboes and applying a warm water poultice of butter, onion and garlic. Other healing and treating properties they used included arsenic, lily root and even tried toad.
  • 1489

    Corpse dissect

    Corpse dissect
    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses. This is also a like practice of being a mortician.
  • 1546

    What causes disease

    Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable seedlike entities.
  • Microscope

    The microscope was invented, which played a major roll in medical advancement.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey publishes an anatomical study of the motion of the heart and of the blood in animals. This begins to from the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
  • Period: to

    industrial revolution

  • Henry Gray

    Gray was an anatomist and surgeon and the creator of Gray's Anatomy, which is an English textbook about human anatomy.
  • Anesthesia

    The first medical procedure using anesthesia was performed by Crawford Long.
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell
    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman that Geneva Medical College in New York granted a medical degree to.
  • Women in the medical field

    The first medical college ever to grant medical degrees to women. The Female Medical College of Pennsylvanian.
  • Harvey Cushing

    Harvey Cushing
    Harvey was an American neurosurgeon. He is known as the father of modern-day brain surgery.
  • Contacts

    The first contact lenses were developed
  • Period: to

    modern world

  • René Gerónimo Favaloro

    René Gerónimo Favaloro
    René was cardiac surgeon who created the coronary bypass grafting procedure
  • Vaccines

    The first vaccine developed for yellow fever.
  • Human Heart Transplant/ Dr. Christian Bernard

    Human Heart Transplant/ Dr. Christian Bernard
    Dr. Christian Bernard performs the first human heart transplant
  • Identifying diseases

    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was identified.
  • Period: to

    21st century

  • Stephanie Amiel

    Stephanie Amiel
    As a practising physician, she specialises in intensive insulin therapy, insulin pumps, and diabetes in pregnancy
  • Cancer vaccination

    The first vaccine was created to target a cause of cancer.
  • stem cells

    Doctors began to induce potential stem cells and also cloned human stem cells.
  • Bilal Abdullah.

    Bilal Abdullah.
    Registered to be a doctor in the UK in 2006. He was one of the 2 terrorists behind the 2007 London car bombs plot and the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack.
  • Artificial liver and Kidney grew

    Japanese researchers successfully created a functioning liver from stem cells.