Medical History

By LyndseyNewby
  • Period: 350 to 500

    Egyptians

    3500-500 BCE
    Earliest accurate records of healthcare.
  • 400

    The first hospital in Latin Christendom was founded by Fabiola at Rome[10]

  • 536

    Sergius of Reshaina

    A Christian theologian-physician who translated thirty-two of Galen’s works into Syriac and wrote medical treatises of his own

  • Ben Franklin

    Invented bifocals

  • Edward Jenner

    Developed a vaccine for smallpox.

  • William Roentgen

    Discovered x-rays

  • Marie Curie

    Isolated radium.

  • Aulus Cornelius Celsus

    Medical Encyclopedia
  • Period: to

    Pedanius Dioscorides writes De Materia Medica

    A precursor of modern pharmacopoeias that was in use for almost 1600 years

  • Louise Brown

    First test tube baby.
  • Period: to 547

    Benedict of Nursia

    Founder of monastic medicine.