Timeline: Medical Events

Oct 8, 1249

spectacles

Roger Bacon
Oct 8, 1489

dissects corpses

Leonardo da Vinci
Oct 8, 1590

microscope

Zacharius Jannssen
Oct 8, 1656

experiments with canine blood transfusions

Sir Christopher Wren
Oct 8, 1670

discovers blood cells

Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Oct 8, 1881

Founded the American Red Cross

Clara Barton
Oct 7, 1895

Discovered X-Rays in 1895

William Roentgen
Oct 7, 1910

Isolated radium in 1910

Marie Curie
Oct 7, 1928

Didscovered penicillin in 1928

Sir Alexander Fleming
Oct 8, 1931

Electron Microscope is invented

Co-invented by Germans, Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska.
Oct 8, 1933

Insulin Shock Theropy

Manfred Sakel
Oct 8, 1941

Penicillin is used in medicine

Alexander Fleming
Oct 8, 1952

Developed the Polio vaccine in 1952

Edward Jenner
Oct 8, 1952

Cloning

Robert Briggs & Thomas King
Oct 8, 1954

patented a leukemia-fighting drug

Gertrude Elion
Oct 8, 1963

First Artificial Heart

Paul Winchell
Oct 8, 1963

invented the balloon embolectomy catheter

Thomas Fogarty
Oct 8, 1967

performs the first human heart transplant

Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Oct 8, 1975

CAT-Scans

Robert S. Ledley
Oct 7, 1976

Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1976

Edward Jenner
Oct 8, 1985

Surgical Robot

Dr Yik San Kwoh
Oct 8, 1985

DNA Fingerprinting

Alec Jeffreys
Oct 8, 1985

invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine

Willem J. Kolff
Oct 8, 2001

Artificial Liver

Kenneth Matsumura
Oct 8, 2005

First partial face transplant

Jean-Michel Dubernard

spectacles