The Great History of Medicine Timeline By michelletran Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300 Middle Ages 820 Benedictine hospital founded 1010 Avicenna writes The Book of Healing & The Canon of Medicine 1204 Innocent III organized the hospital of Santo Spirito at Rome Jan 1, 1249 Roger Bacon invents glasses 1300 concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy Period: Jan 1, 1301 to Dec 31, 1700 Renaissance Jan 1, 1347 The Black Death began in Europe Jan 1, 1400 Women not allowed to practice medicine Jan 1, 1489 Church allowed dissection of criminals (sometimes while alive) Jan 1, 1590 Zacharius Janssen invents the microscope Jan 1, 1626 William Harvey studied dying dogs and showed that the heart pumped blood around the body Period: Jan 1, 1701 to Dec 31, 1899 Industrial Revolution Jan 1, 1747 James Lind publishes his Treatise of Scurvy Jan 1, 1830 Typhoid Outbreaks Jan 1, 1831 Cholera struck England killing 30,000 people 1846 John Collins Warren provides first public demonstration of anesthesia in surgery Jan 1, 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell first women to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Dec 31, 1999 Modern World Jan 1, 1903 Willem Einthoven invented the first practical electrocardiogram 1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs first human heart transplant 1978 Doctors recorded last fatal case of smallpox 1978 First test-tube baby is born in the U.K. 1996 Dolly the sheep becomes first mammal cloned from an adult cell 2000 First draft of human genome is announced Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Sep 5, 2019 21st Century 2006 The FDA announced an approval of Atripla Tablets 2007 Scientists figure how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells 2013 development of the first advanced-movement prosthetic leg 2018 scientists discovered prevention & treatment for Osteoarthritis
