History of Medicine

Middle Ages

Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad

754

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/top-10-medical-advances-from-the-middle-ages/

Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox

910

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine

1010

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

The earliest depiction of a person wearing glasses

1352

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/top-10-medical-advances-from-the-middle-ages/

Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

1489

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1501 to Dec 31, 1795

Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

1590

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals

1628

which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria.

1683

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

The first smallpox inoculations

1701

By Giacomo Pylarini http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

The first successful appendectomy

1763

By Claudius Aymand http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

Industrial Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1796 to Dec 31, 1900

The anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide was discoved

1800

By Humphry Davy http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

The first successful transfusion of human blood

1818

James Blundell performed
http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

The first woman to gain a medical degree

1849

Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York.
http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

1857

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

First contact lenses developed

1887

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

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

1901

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

Modern World

Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1999

First vaccine developed for diphtheria.

1923

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

First vaccine developed for yellow fever

1935

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

Bernard Fantus pioneers the use the first blood bank in Chicago

1937

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

The first paper on medical ultrasonics - ultrasound published

1942

B y Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik

21st Century

Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Sep 1, 2017

Jean-Michel Dubernard performed the first partial face transplant.

2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_medicine_and_medical_technology#2000_.E2.80.93_present

First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

2006

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm

First HPV vaccine approved.

2006

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_medicine_and_medical_technology#2000_.E2.80.93_present

The visual prosthetic (bionic eye) Argus II.

2007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_medicine_and_medical_technology#2000_.E2.80.93_present

The first human liver was grown from stem cells in Japan.

2013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_medicine_and_medical_technology#2000_.E2.80.93_present