Medical History

By Perry Greenwood
  • Jan 1, 1400

    -1650 Renaissance/rebirth of science

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    History of Medicine

  • Printing Press
    Jan 1, 1450

    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