History of Medicine Timeline

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  • Classifying Blood Groups

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

  • Vitamins

    Frederick Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets.

  • The Band-Aid

    Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid.

  • Diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Tuberculosis

    First vaccine for Tuberculosis. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit their saliva through the air.

  • Yellow Fever

    First vaccine developed for yellow fever.

  • Kidney Transplant

    Joseph Murray performs the first human kidney transplant (on identical twins).

  • Human Lung and Liver Transplant

    Thomas Starzl performs the first human liver transplant.
    James Hardy performs the first human lung transplant.

  • Human Heart Transplant

    South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant.

  • Chicken Pox

    First vaccine developed for chicken pox

  • CAT-Scans

    Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans

  • Test-tube Baby

    First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.

  • HIV

    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

  • Hepatitis A

    First vaccine for Hepatitis A.

  • Clone

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone.

  • HGP

    Human Genome Project, all human genes identified.

  • SARS virus

    Carlo Urbani, of Doctors without Borders alerted the World Health Organization to the threat of the SARS virus, triggering the most effective response to an epidemic in history. Urbani succumbs to the disease himself in less than a month.

  • Cancer

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer.

  • Face Transplant

    Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant.

  • First Baby

    First baby from embryos screened the eye cancer gene.