History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Discovered difference between measles and smallpox
  • 1200

    Ophthalmology and optics

    Included invention of syringe
  • 1268

    Eyeglasses

    Invented in the middle ages
  • 1300

    Islamic Hospitals

    Islamic Hospitals
    Islamic Hospitals; health care for the sick
  • 1300

    Christian Monasteries

    Founded to treat the ill
  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1400

    Jacoba Felicie

    Jacoba Felicie
    Tries to practice medicine but gets denied
  • 1500

    C-Section

    First C-Section was happened
  • Scientific Method

    People started using scientific method
  • Reflective Mircoscope

    Reflective Mircoscope
    Allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria
  • Francis Bacon

    Uses microscope to discover plague fleas
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • First Hospital

    First Hospital
    This was the first hospital built.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Discovered pathogens
  • Vaccine for Rabies

    First vaccine for rabies was invented
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Pasteurization of milk
  • Vaccine for Plague

    First vaccine for plague is invented
  • Bulbonic plague

    The disease hits San Fransico
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Alexandar Fleming

    Alexandar Fleming
    Discovers penicillin
  • HMO Insurance

    First HMO Insurance was discovered
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    He discovered the polio vaccine
  • WHO

    They declare that the smallpox is eradicated
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Steve Thomas

    Steve Thomas
    Used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
  • Human Genome Project

    Identified a complete set of DNA
  • Gardasil

    Vaccine to prevent cervical cancer is approved by the FDA
  • MIPPA

    They provide incentives for practitioners who use electronic health
  • Artificial Heart

    Artificial Heart
    First artificial heart was place in a patient