History of Medicine Timeline

Timeline created by darcireidhead3 in Science and Technology

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1901	460 B.C.	Birth of Hippocrates. Greek physician and founder of the first university. Considered the father of medicine. Hippocrates bases medicine on objective observation and deductive reasoning.
01/02/1902	300 B.C.	Diocles writes first known book of anatomy.
01/03/1903	280 B.C.	Herophilus studies the nervous system.
01/03/1904	1489	Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses.
01/03/1905	1543	Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani.
01/03/1906	1628	William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
01/03/1907	1670	Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells.
01/04/1908	1763	Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
01/04/1909	1818	James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
01/04/1910	1895	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.
01/04/1911	1901	Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
01/04/1912	1921	Edward Mellanby discovers that lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets.
01/04/1913	1950	John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker