History of Medicine Timeline

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  • 460 B.C.

    460 B.C.

    Birth of Hippocrates. Greek physician and founder of the first university. Considered the father of medicine. Hippocrates bases medicine on objective observation and deductive reasoning.
  • 300 B.C.

    300 B.C.

    Diocles writes first known book of anatomy.
  • 280 B.C.

    280 B.C.

    Herophilus studies the nervous system.
  • 1489

    1489

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses.
  • 1543

    1543

    Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani.
  • 1628

    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.
  • 1670

    1670

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells.
  • 1763

    1763

    Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
  • 1818

    1818

    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
  • 1895

    1895

    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.
  • 1901

    1901

    Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
  • 1921

    1921

    Edward Mellanby discovers that lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets.
  • 1950

    1950

    John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker