History of Medicine By gerberbaby 500 Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries 500 Cnidos medical school; also one at Cos 500 Bian Que becomes the earliest physician known to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1200 Middle Ages 630 Paul of Aegina 910 Rhazes Period: Jan 1, 1301 to Dec 31, 1700 Renaissiance 1502 Antonio Benivieni, science of pathology 1590 Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope 1628 William Harvey 1656 Sir Christopher Wren first to inject medicine to animal bladder and experiment with blood transfusion 1670 Anton van Leeuwenhoek refines microsvope and descovers blood cells Period: Jan 1, 1701 to Dec 31, 1899 Industrial revolution 1754 industrial revolution James Lind discovers fruit prevents scurvy. 1796 Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus. 1842 Dominique Jean Larrey, Surgeon to Napoleon 1844 Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. 1879 First vaccine for cholera Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Dec 31, 1999 modern world 1922 Insulin first used to treat diabetes. 1927 First vaccine for tuberculosis. 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming discoverers penicillin. 1952 Paul Zoll develops the first peacemaker. 1954 Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins. 2000 First draft of human genome is announced to the public. 2000 Joe Crameri Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Sep 5, 2019 21st century 2003 Dolly the sheep was the first cloned animal 2006 First HPV vaccine approved 2008 Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant.
