Health Occupations

  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle Ages

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance

  • Jan 1, 1489

    Leonardo Da Vinci Disects Corpses

    Leonardo Da Vinci Disects Corpses
  • Period: to

    The Great Plague

  • Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals

    Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals
  • Revolutionary War

  • Edward Jenner discovered vaccination for smallpox

  • Rene Laennec invented the Stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invented the Stethoscope
  • Public Health Act

  • Elizabeth Blackwell first woman qualified as doctor

  • Louis Pasteur discovers pasteurization

  • Joseph Lister was first to use antiseptic

  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

    Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
  • First Contact Lenses

    First Contact Lenses
  • William Roentgen discovered x-rays

    William Roentgen discovered x-rays
  • Felix Hoffman discovers asprin

    Felix Hoffman discovers asprin
  • Isolated Radium by Marie Curie

  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin

  • Discovery of penicillin

  • Period: to

    World War 2

  • Jonas salk developed the polio vaccine

  • First Heart Transplant

  • CAT scan invented by Robert S. Ledley

  • First Test Tube Baby Born

    First Test Tube Baby Born
  • Smallpox is eradicated

  • HIV, which causes AIDS, is identified

  • Dolly The Sheep Becomes First Clone

    Dolly The Sheep Becomes First Clone
  • First Vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Rhazes identifies smallpox