Medical History By chelsea526 Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400 Dark and Middle Ages Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 1, 1100 First school of Medicine established in Salerno, Italy Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1399 First Disection of Human Corpse Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Jan 1, 1650 Renaissance Period: Apr 19, 1775 to Sep 3, 1783 Revolutionary War Jul 4, 1776 US Independence from Great Britian Jan 1, 1784 Ben Franklin invented bifocals Jan 1, 1796 Edward Jenner Developed Small Pox Vaccine Period: Jan 1, 1800 to Jan 1, 1900 Joseph Lister is the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery Jan 1, 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell first woman to qualify as a doctor Period: Apr 12, 1861 to May 10, 1865 Civil War Jan 1, 1881 Clara Barton founds Red Cross Jan 1, 1885 Rabies vaccine discovered Jan 1, 1895 Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-rays Jan 1, 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act Jan 1, 1910 Marie Curie Isolated Radium Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WW1 Jan 1, 1928 Sir Alexander Flemming discovered Penicillin Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 WW2 Jan 1, 1952 Jonas Salk developed Polio Vaccine Jan 1, 1967 First successful heart transplant Jan 1, 1978 First Test tube baby born Jan 1, 1981 AIDS first recognized Jan 1, 1997 Scientists clone sheep
