Medical History

By caitlynemrick
  • The study of disease begins
    400

    The study of disease begins

    The Greeks were the first to study disease and Hippocrates was named "The Father of Medicine".
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle Ages

    The study of medical science stopped for over 1,000 years, herbal medicines were used, there were many epidemics
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance (Rebirth of Science)

    Accepted the study of the body by disection, medical schools were built, the printing press made books possible and knowledge was shared
  • Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

    Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals

    The book describes how blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart, and then returns to the heart and recirculates.
  • Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox

    Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox

  • René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.

    René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.

  • Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

  • Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman doctor

    Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman doctor

    first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightengale to pursue nursing
  • Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

    Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

  • Louis Pasteur created the first vaccine for rabies

    Louis Pasteur created the first vaccine for rabies

  • Wilhelm Roentgen deicovered x-rays

    Wilhelm Roentgen deicovered x-rays

    this allowed doctors to see inside the body
  • Marie Curie isolated radium

    Marie Curie isolated radium

  • Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Sir Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin

    Sir Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin

  • Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine

    Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine

  • Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker.

    A pacemaker controls irregular heartbeat

  • First vaccine for chicken pox.

  • Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery

    Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery

  • First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.

  • W.H.O. (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated

  • HIV is identified

    HIV is the virus that causes AIDS
  • Dolly the sheep becomes the first mamal cloned from an adult cell

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first mamal cloned from an adult cell

    dies in 2003

  • Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.