history of medicine timeline

By melanidifebbo
  • 4000 BCE

    Illness and diseases

    illnesses and diseases were caused by evil spirits
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    believed in treating the whole body by using spirit nourishments
  • 1350 BCE

    renaissance

    body dissections
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Hippocrates the father of medicine examined a new medicine
  • 800 BCE

    middle ages

    examinations
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    medical care for injured solders
  • 400 BCE

    Dark ages

    soul and study of medicine
  • 300 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    physicians were priests
  • 21 BCE

    21th century

    -surgeries
    -more freedoms and laws
  • 20 BCE

    20th century

    more cures to vaccines
  • 19 BCE

    19th century

    discoveries of anesthesia
  • 18 BCE

    18th century

    surgical behaviors
  • 16 BCE

    16th and 17th century

    invention of microscopes