History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1300

    Middle Ages

    500's - 1300's
  • 501

    Barber-Surgeons

    Barber-Surgeons
    Barber surgeons are used to shave or cut and hair that is in the way of the area they are performing surgery.
  • Jan 1, 600

    Medical Care

    Medical care became regulated to enforce rules and regulations.
  • Jan 1, 700

    Galen

    Galen discovered the anatomy of the trachea and invented tracheotomy.
  • Jan 1, 800

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    R hazes discovered the difference between the measles and small pox
  • Jan 1, 900

    Christian Monasteries

    Christian Monasteries began to give medical treatment. They usually treated them in a religious fashion.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

    1300's - 1700's
  • Jan 1, 1400

    Printing press

    Printing press
    The printing press was discovered to notify the public about what surgeries were happening at the time.
  • Robert Hook

    Robert Hook put a piece of cork in a reflective microscope and discovered cells.
  • Human anatomy

    Human anatomy
    Human anatomy studies were allowed and learnt through disection.
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie discovered the "protozoa" and described what bacteria was.
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    Francis was a philosopher who discovered the plague fleas with a microscope.