Medical History

By rachaelberg07
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance

  • Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen

    Invents the microscope
  • Antonie P. Leewenhoak

    Antonie P. Leewenhoak

    Discovered germs

  • Edward Jenner

    Developed a vaccine for smallpox
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S.
  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Gregor Mendel

    Discovered genetics
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton

    Founded the American Red Cross

  • First vaccine for rabies

  • Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays

    Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays

  • Period: to

    Most Rapid Developments in Health Care

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Isolated radium
  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Influenza epidemic

  • Edward Mellanby

    Discovers vitamin D and its importance.

  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin
  • Period: to

    World War II

  • First vaccine for influenza

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Developed the polio vaccine
  • Christian Barnard

    Christian Barnard

    Performed the world's first heart transplant surgery
  • Louise Joy Brow

    Louise Joy Brow

    First test tube baby

  • AIDS

    Aids was identified

  • Heart Implant

    Dr. William DeVries implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days

  • Dolly the Sheep

    The first mammal clonned from an adult cell but dies in 2003
    1996