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The Father of Medicine
Hippocrates -
Jan 1, 1069
Egyptiains
(1069-653 BC) First people to keep medical records -
Jan 1, 1400
The Renaissance
The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other Eurpoean countries. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine. -
Jan 1, 1450
Dark Ages
Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited (1450-1863) -
Jan 1, 1489
Leonardo Davinci
Leonardo Davinci disects human corpses. -
Jan 1, 1543
Dissection to Draw the Human Body
Leonardo DaVinci -
Zacharias Jannssen
Zacharias Jannssen invents the microscope -
Sir Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions. -
Blood Cell discovery
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells -
Gabriel Farenhiet
Created the first mercury thermometer -
Appendectomy
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy. -
Vaccine for Small Pox
Created by Edward Jenner -
Stethoscope
Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope. -
Blood Transfusion
James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood. -
Louis Pasteur
(1822-2895) Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria -
General Anesthetic
Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic. -
Syringe
Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe -
Florence Nightingdale
Founded the practice of nursing -
Joseph Lister
Started the idea of using antiseptics and disinfectants during surgery -
American Red Cross
Clara Barton -
Contact Lenses
First contact lenses developed. -
Discovered X-Rays
William Roentgen -
Isolated Radium
Marie Curie isolated radium in 1910. -
World War 1
1914-1918 -
Influenza
Outbreak of influenza that causes several thousands to die. First time we learned about disease spreading. -
Band-Aid
Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid -
Iron Lung
Iron lung is used to help patients with polio breathe. -
Penicillin
Discovered by sir Alexander Flemming -
WW 2
The first forms of amputation were started and need for clean medical equipment arose. -
World Health Organization Forms
The World Health Organization is formed, -
Pacemaker Invention
John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker. -
Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk -
DNA
James Watson and Francis Crick work on the structure of the DNA molecule -
CAT-Scans
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans -
Smallpox
Smallpox is eradicated -
HIV Identified
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified -
Genetic Fingerprinting
Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method -
Dialysis Machine
Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine. -
Sheep Clone
Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone -
Rhazes
(865-925 AD)An arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material
