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Medical History Timeline

By hartioli
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Dark and Middle Ages

    -Study of Medical Science stopped for over 1000 years
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance

    -Rebirth of Science
  • First disections of bodys and anatomic drawings
    Jan 1, 1500

    First disections of bodys and anatomic drawings

    -Andreas Vesalius & Leonardo Da Vinci dissected human bodies and made the first anatomic drawings
  • Anton Von Leeuwenhoek Invented the microscope

    Anton Von Leeuwenhoek Invented the microscope

    -Anton Von Leeuwenhoek

  • William Harvey described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the human heart

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Benjamin Franklin found that colds could be passed from person to person

    Benjamin Franklin found that colds could be passed from person to person

  • Benjamin Franklin Invented Bifocals

    Benjamin Franklin Invented Bifocals

    -Benjamin Franklin

  • Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox

  • Louis Pasteur -Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria

  • Rene Laenneo Invented the stethoscrope

    Rene Laenneo Invented the stethoscrope

    -Rene Laennec

  • Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing

  • Florence Nightingale started the first school of nursing

    Florence Nightingale started the first school of nursing

    -during the Grimean War
    -Made nursing an honarable profession

  • First vaccine developed for cholera

  • Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

    Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

  • First contact lenses deveopled

    First contact lenses deveopled

  • William roentgen discovered X-rays in 1895

  • Marie Curie Isolated radium

  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine

  • First vaccine developed for measles.

  • Christian Barnard perfromed the worlds first heart transplant surgery

  • Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans

    Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans

  • Louis Brown was born

    Louis Brown was born

    -First test tube baby
    -In Great Britian
  • Period: to

    AIDS was an epedemic

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer