History of Medicine

By jtanke
  • Sep 6, 1249

    Spectacles

    Roger Bacon invents spectacles
  • Nov 16, 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • Microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Blood Cells

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Bacteria

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

  • Vaccination for smallpox

    Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease

  • Stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • Transfusion

    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

  • Nitrous Oxide

    Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York

  • Charles and Alexander

    Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

  • X-Rays

    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays

  • Aspirin

    Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

  • Blood Groups

    Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups

  • Insulin

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • pneumonia

    First vaccine developed for pneumonia.

  • HIV

    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

  • Dolly the Sheep

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone

  • Cancer

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer