Health Science

  • Period: 500 BCE to 400

    Ancient Times

  • Hippocrates
    460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    He wrote many books and, in them, described diseases and their treatments. He also went through very detailed observations on different diseases
  • Herophilos
    335 BCE

    Herophilos

    One of the first people to study human anatomy as well as to do public dissections on human cadavers.
  • Piocles
    301 BCE

    Piocles

    Was a pupil to Aristotle and wrote many books on medicine but is known for his books on anatomy.
  • Galen
    131 BCE

    Galen

    Contributed to what is known about pathology today and developed the "Four Humours", which is a theory that the body was made up of four liquids, blood, phlegm​, yellow bile, and black bile.
  • Dioscordes
    90 BCE

    Dioscordes

    Known for writing De Materia Medica, which is a five-volume encyclopedia of herbal medicine/a pharmacopeia. It focused on the medicinal purposes of plants while writing these he worked as a surgeon under the Roman Emporer Nero.
  • Period: 400 to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • First public pharmacy/drugstore
    754

    First public pharmacy/drugstore

    It was opened in Baghdad as during the Islamic Golden Age, Avicenna had a large part in working to create it.
  • Rhazes
    865

    Rhazes

    Abu Bakr Muhammed ibn Zarkariya al-razi, otherwise known as Rhazes, a Persian physician/philosopher. He is known to be a leading scholar of the early Islamic world. He wrote encyclopedic reviews of medicine that were translated and used as textbooks for medical students.
  • Avicenna
    980

    Avicenna

    A Persian polymath who studies in medicine and psychology. He was a well-known​ figure and is popular for introducing pharmacology to people.
  • Roger Bacon
    1214

    Roger Bacon

    Known as Doctor Mirabilis, he wrote many books on different sciences. He is popular for being a creator of the scientific method, as well as studying nature through​ empiricism.
  • First Medical School
    1231

    First Medical School

    This was opened in 1231 for a place medical students could learn about their passion, It was opened in Salerno Italy, it was called Schola Salerno.
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He is popular in the medical field for drawing out human anatomy with very precise details, he was also the first to draw out the thyroid.
  • Vesalius
    1543

    Vesalius

    He is the man to write the famous well-known anatomy book "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" which his drawings are iconic for their detail and amazing preciseness.
  • First Microscope

    First Microscope

    Invented by the Janssen brothers and Galileo, its issues were​ that the images and the things the user was looking at where blurry.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Harvey studied the body and published work about how the heart, veins, and blood are connected as well as their movement of throughout the body.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek discovered blood cells by looking at blood under a microscope, this happened during the Golden Age of Dutch Science.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Jenner developed the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine.
  • Claudius Amyand

    Claudius Amyand

    Amyand was a French surgeon, he completed the first successful appendectomy.
  • Sir Humphry Davy

    Sir Humphry Davy

    Davy discovered that nitrous oxide can be used as an anesthetic for surgeries or procedures​.
  • First Stethoscope

    First Stethoscope

    Rene Laennec, a French physician created the stethoscope while working at Hôpital Necker.
  • James Blundell

    James Blundell

    Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion​ in a patient.
  • Period: to

    Modern Era

  • Crawford W. Long

    Crawford W. Long

    The first surgeon to use ether as a general anesthetic during surgeries. Long would also spend time working as a pharmacist.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Pasteur was a French biologist and chemist, he is known for his studies on vaccines, fermentation of microbes, and the pasteurization method.
  • Cholera Vaccine

    Cholera Vaccine

    The vaccine was found/created by Waldemar Mordecai Haffine, in 1879.
  • Anthrax Vaccine

    Anthrax Vaccine

    Created by Louis Pasteur to fight against anthrax, which has now been eliminated.
  • Influenza vaccine

    Influenza vaccine

    Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis created this vaccine, now with the power of their work influenza stopped killing people who were sick with it.
  • Karl Dussik

    Karl Dussik

    He was the first doctor to make a diagnosis based off of a venous ultrasound image to lead to the diagnosis of a brain tumour.
  • HeLa Cells

    HeLa Cells

    A type of immortal cell used in scientific research​, it helped in treating things such as; cancer, AIDs, genetic diseases, vitro fertilization, and more.
  • Small pox Eradicated

    Small pox Eradicated

    With the help of vaccines, there have been zero cases of smallpox in America.
  • Dolly the sheep

    Dolly the sheep

    Dolly is the first successful cloned animal, she was cloned using stem cells.
  • Vaccine to target cancer

    Vaccine to target cancer

    This vaccine was worked on by many different doctors, scientists, and specialists. The vaccine targets specific antibodies cancer has.