Health TImeline

Medical School Est

Jan 1, 1000

First medical school est in Salerno, Italy

Hygiene

Jan 1, 1200

First measures towards public hygiene.

Dissection

Jan 1, 1300

First dissection of the human corpse

Recorded Regulations

Jan 1, 1400

FIrst recorded regulations for midwives

Human Anatomy Book

Jan 1, 1500

First study for human anatomy published

Blood Circulation

Jan 1, 1600

Blood first discribed by William Harvey

Bacteria Discovered

Jan 1, 1600

Bacteria was first discovered/indentified

Microscope invented

Jan 1, 1668

Simple mircoscope was invented by Anton van Leeuwenhoek

First law requiring licenses

Jan 1, 1700

First law requiring licensed medical practitioners

Obstetrics est

Jan 1, 1700

Obstetrics established as a separate branch of medicine

US Independence

Jan 1, 1776

Rev War

Jan 1, 1796

Smallpox vaccine

Jan 1, 1796

Discovered by Edward Jenner

First Anesthetic

Jan 1, 1842

first practical anesthetic, ether, introduced.

Civil War

Jan 1, 1861

Diagnostic Tools

Jan 1, 1879

Tools such as microscope, thermometer and x-rays

GERMS

Jan 1, 1879

Germ theory was introduced

American Red Cross

Jan 1, 1881

Started by Clara Barton

Rabies

Jan 1, 1885

Rabies vaccine discovered

X-ray

Jan 1, 1895

Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-ray

Blood Types

Jan 1, 1900

Major blood types such as O,A,B and AB were indentified

Isolated Radium

Jan 1, 1910

Isolated by Marie Curie

WWI

Jan 1, 1914

Penicillin

Jan 1, 1928

Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming

WWII

Sep 1, 1939

Polio Vaccine

Jan 1, 1952

Discovered by Jonas Salk

Birth control

Oct 9, 1960

First birth control pill introduced

Heart Transplant

Oct 9, 1967

First successful heart transplant

Test tube baby

Jan 1, 1978

Louise Brown born in England was the first test tube baby born

AIDs

Jan 1, 1981

AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.