Medical History

By paigemthomas
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Middle / Drak Ages

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance

  • Invention of Microscope

    Invention of Microscope

    Anton Von Leevwenhoek invented the microscope.

  • Circulation of Blood

    William Harvey discovers cirulation of blood.
  • Bifocals

    Bifocals

    Benjamine Franklin invented the first pair of bifocals.

  • U,S. Declares Independince

  • Small Pox Vaccine

    Edward Jenner disconvers small pox vaccine.
  • Stethoscope

    Stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invented the first stethoscope.

  • First women doctor

    Elizabeth Blackwell became the first qualified women doctor in the U.S.

  • First nursing school

    Florence Nightingale started the first nursing school
  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Antiseptics used

    Joseph Lister started using antiseptics during surgery
  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross

    Clara Barton established the American Red Cross

  • Cocaine

    Carl Koller uses cocaine as a local anesthetic

  • Rabies Vaccine

    Louis Pasture finds the rabies vaccine
  • X-ray

    X-ray

    Wilhelm Roentgen discovers the x-ray

  • Psychoanalytic Society

    Alfred Adler and Sigmund Froid eastablished the first psychoanalytic society

  • Artificial Kidney

    John Able develops the first artificail kidney
  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Penicillin

    Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Measles vaccine

    Measles vaccine is first developed

  • First Heart Tansplant

    Christan Barnard performed the first heart transplant
  • Heart transplant

    Heart transplant

    Christiaan Barnard performs the fisrt successful heart transplant

  • Test Tube baby

    The first extrauterine "test tube" baby is conceived

  • Toxic shock syndrome

    Toxic shock syndrome is linked to tampon use

  • AIDS

    First two cases of AIDS
  • Breast Cancer

    Breast Cancer

    Breast cancer gene is discovered