Medical man(1)

Medical Discoveries up to 1865

By katyj
  • Avicenna
    May 10, 1010

    Avicenna

    The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine are written.
  • Roger Bacon
    May 10, 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Eye glasses are invented
  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen

    Microscope is invented.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Blood cells are discovered.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    The fisrt vaccine for any disease is made. (For smallpox.)
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec

    The stethescope is invented.
  • James Blundell

    James Blundell

    Human blood is succesfully transfused for the first time.
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    First woman to get a medical degree.
  • Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood

    Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood

    The syringe is developed.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Germs are identified as the cause of disease.
  • Rhazes

    Rhazes

    Smallpox are identified.