History of Medicine By 142539 100 Egyptians, 3500-500 100 Greeks, 400 BCE Period: 410 to Jan 1, 1000 Dark Ages Jan 1, 1400 Rebirth of science Jan 1, 1400 Medical schools built Jan 1, 1400 Printing press made books possible Jan 1, 1400 Accepted study of body by dissection Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Jan 1, 1650 Renaissance Oct 8, 1500 Andreus Versalius and Da Vinci dissected human bodies Oct 8, 1500 William Harvey described the cirulation of blood and the pumping of the heart Oct 8, 1500 Anton von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope Oct 8, 1700 Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person Oct 8, 1700 Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope Oct 7, 1796 Vaccine for smallpox invented Oct 8, 1800 Joseph Lister first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision Oct 8, 1800 Louis Pasteur rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria Oct 8, 1894 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor Oct 8, 1895 Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays Oct 8, 1901 Egyptians, 3500-500 BCE Oct 7, 1910 Marie Curie isolated radium Oct 8, 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin Oct 7, 1952 Jonas Salk developed polio vaccine Oct 8, 1967 Christian Bernard, performed the world's first heart transplant surgery Oct 8, 1978 Louise Brown, first test tube baby
