Timeline: History of Medicine | Timetoast

500

Difference between smallpox and measles discovered
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

Middle Ages
Aug 31, 754

First pharmacy built in Baghdad
Dec 6, 805

Harun Al-Rashid

Built the first general hospital in Baghdad
Dec 6, 1328

Black Death

235 million people died in total due to this disease that caused them to have painful swelling in the lymph nodes and other symptons, There was no treatment.
Aug 31, 1500

First written record of having both the mother and child survive a c-section
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to Dec 31, 1795

The Renaissance
Feb 9, 1527

Paracelsus

Cured a leg infection without amputation.
Dec 6, 1536

Started using ligatures to tie arteries during amputations, so patients didn't bleed to death.
Dec 6, 1536

Pare discovered wounds healed better if treated with egg yolk and rose oil.
Dec 19, 1600

Use of Scientific method begins
Dec 6, 1615

William Harvey

Identified the difference between arteries and veins.
Period: 1796 to 1900

Industrial Revolution
Dec 1, 1816

First stethoscope invented
Dec 9, 1820

Florence NIghtingale

founded modern nursing
Dec 6, 1845

Willhelm Roentgen

discovered x-rays and first nobel prize in physics
Dec 8, 1865

Joseph Lister

First to introduce antiseptic surgery.
Dec 6, 1899

Production of aspirin
Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1999

Modern World
Dec 9, 1901

Karl Landsteiner

Introduced the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups.
Dec 6, 1922

Insulin first used to treat diabetes
Dec 6, 1926

First vaccine developed for whooping cough
Dec 6, 1978

First test-tube baby is born.
Dec 6, 1980

Smallpox is eradicated
Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Aug 31, 2017

21st Century
Dec 6, 2003

scientists completed a draft sequencing of the human genome.
Dec 6, 2005

First partial face transplant was done in Amiens, France
Dec 6, 2006

First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
Dec 6, 2006

scientists showed adult cells can be "turned back" into stem cells.
Dec 6, 2016

Thomas Manning

First man to receive a genital transplant