History of Medicine Timeline By MacKenzieKay 500 First wheeled vehicals in Mesopotamia in 3650 B.C.E 500 Egyptians developed a system of writing called hieroglyphics that told stories with pictures in 3200 B.C.E 500 Phoenician traders begin spreading alphabete throughout Mediterranean in 1100 B.C.E 500 Hippocrates developed the Hippocratic Oath for physicians in 400 B.C.E Jan 1, 1145 Frist recorded autopsy in China Jan 1, 1400 Renaissance begins the Rebirth of Science Jan 1, 1440 German inventor, Johannes Gutenburg, invented the printing press. Jan 1, 1489 Leonardo da Vinci starts disecting human bodies for research Jan 1, 1595 Zacharias Jansenn made the first microscope Jan 1, 1628 William Harvey described the circulation of blood to and from the heart Jan 1, 1656 Sir Christopher Wren expirements with canine blood transfusions Jan 1, 1670 Anton von Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells Jan 1, 1760 Benjamin franklin invents bifocals Jan 1, 1763 Claudius Aymand performs first successful appendectomy Oct 1, 1776 Benjamin Franklin discovered the common cold was passed from one person to another Jan 1, 1796 Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox Jan 1, 1816 Rene Laennce invents stethoscope Jan 1, 1818 James Blundell performs first successful transfusion of human blood Jan 1, 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is first woman to get a medical degree from Geneva medical college in New York Oct 1, 1853 Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develope the syringe Jan 1, 1857 Louis Pasteur invents pasturizing milk Jan 1, 1861 American Civil War begins Jan 1, 1865 Gregory Mendel established the patterns of heredity Jan 1, 1867 Joseph Lister began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery Jan 1, 1870 Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur established The Germ Theory of Disease Jan 1, 1881 Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross Jan 1, 1882 Koch discovers TB bacillius Jan 1, 1885 Louis Pasteur developes rabies vaccine Jan 1, 1895 William Roentgen discovered x-rays Jan 1, 1899 Felix Hoffman developes asprin Jan 1, 1910 Marie Curie isolated radium Jan 1, 1914 World War 1 begins Jan 1, 1927 First vaccine for tuberculosis is created Jan 1, 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin Jan 1, 1939 World War 2 begins Jan 1, 1952 Jonas Salk developed a polio vaccine Mar 2, 2022 Rhazes identified small pox Mar 2, 2022 China prints first book.
