Timeline: History of Medicine | Timetoast

Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

Middle Ages
754

The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad

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910

Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox

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1010

Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine

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1352

The earliest depiction of a person wearing glasses

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1489

Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to Dec 31, 1795

Renaissance
1590

Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

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1628

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.
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1683

Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria.

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1701

The first smallpox inoculations

By Giacomo Pylarini http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm
1763

The first successful appendectomy

By Claudius Aymand http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm
Period: Jan 1, 1796 to Dec 31, 1900

Industrial Revolution
1800

The anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide was discoved

By Humphry Davy http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm
1818

The first successful transfusion of human blood

James Blundell performed
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1849

The first woman to gain a medical degree

Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York.
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1857

Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

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1887

First contact lenses developed

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1901

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

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Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1999

Modern World
1923

First vaccine developed for diphtheria.

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1935

First vaccine developed for yellow fever

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1937

Bernard Fantus pioneers the use the first blood bank in Chicago

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1942

The first paper on medical ultrasonics - ultrasound published

B y Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik
Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Sep 1, 2017

21st Century
2005

Jean-Michel Dubernard performed the first partial face transplant.

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2006

First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

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2006

First HPV vaccine approved.

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2007

The visual prosthetic (bionic eye) Argus II.

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2013

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

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