History of Medicine

By Ireneayala
  • 130

    Birth of Galen

    Greek physician to gladiators and Roman emperors
  • 300

    Diocles

    wrote the first known anatomy book
  • 460

    Birth of Hippocrates

    The Greek father of medicine begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin.
  • 500

    Alcmaeon of Croton

    distinguished veins from arteries
  • 500

    Middle Ages

  • 500

    Middle Ages

  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 900

    Rhazes

    Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox
  • 900

    regulated medical care

  • 1010

    Avicenna

    writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • 1249

    Roger Bacon

    invents spectacles
  • 1301

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

    dissects corpses
  • 1543

    Vesalius

    publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    invents the microscope

  • William Harvey

    publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart

  • Sir Christopher Wren

    experiments with canine blood transfusions

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    discovers blood cells

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    observes bacteria.

  • Renaissance

  • Giacomo Pylarin

    gives the first smallpox inoculations
  • Period: to

    Inudstrial Revolution

  • Claudius Aymand

    performs the first successful appendectomy

  • Edward Jenner

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

  • Sir Humphry Davy

    discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

  • Rene Laennec

    invents the stethoscope

  • James Blundell

    performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

  • Crawford W.

    Long uses ether as a general anesthetic

  • Dr. Horace Wells

    uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

  • William Morton

    a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

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

  • Inudstrial Revolution

  • Inudstrial Revolution

  • Modern World

  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Insulin

    first used to treat diabetes.

  • First vaccine

    developed for diphtheria

  • First vaccine

    developed for whooping cough

  • First vaccine

    developed for tuberculosis

  • First vaccine

    developed for hepatitis A.
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • First vaccine

    to target a cause of cancer

  • Modern World

  • 21st Century

  • 21st Century