Medical History

  • Jan 1, 1400

    -1650 Renaissance/rebirth of science

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    History of Medicine

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Printing Press

    Printing Press
  • Jan 1, 1510

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects human being

  • Discovery of the circulation of blood

  • Invention of microscope

  • Bifocals Invented

    Bifocals Invented
    Ben Franklin
  • America Discoverd

    America Discoverd
  • Small Pox Vaccine

    invented me Edward Jenner
  • Invention of the stethoscope

  • First Woman Doctor

    Elizabeth Blackwell
  • School of Nursing

    School of Nursing
    Started by Florence Nightingale
  • Civil War

    Civil War
  • First use of antiseptic

    used by Joseph Lister
  • Red Cross Founded

    Red Cross Founded
    Founded by Clara Barton
  • Rabies Vaccine

    invented by Louis Pasteur
  • Cancer discovered

    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
  • Isolated Radium

    Marie Curie
  • WWI

    WWI
  • WWII

    WWII
  • Microsurgery

  • Polio Vaccine

    devoloped by Jonas Salk
  • First Heart Transplant

    Christian Barnard
  • Dolly the sheep is clone

  • Oral Polio treatment