Medical History Timeline

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  • Period: 100 to 410

    Romans

    Begin public health and sanitation systems
    753 BC-410 AD
  • Period: 100 to 300

    Egyptians

    earliest people know to maintain accurate health records
  • Period: 100 to 220

    Chinese

    1700 BC-220 AD
    Used acupunture to relieve pain and congestion
  • Period: 100 to 377

    Hippocrates, father of medicine

    460-377 BC
  • Period: 400 to

    Dark Ages

    Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    The Renaissance

    rebirth of science, stimulated medical practice just as it did all other European intellectual pursuits
  • Period: Jan 1, 1452 to Jan 1, 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Artist who used dissection to draw the human body
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart
  • Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Gabriel Fahrenheit

    Created the first mercury thermometer

  • Edward Jenner, developed a vaccine for smallpox

  • Period: to

    Florence Nightengale

    Founder of Modern Nursing
  • Period: to

    Robert Koch

    Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens
  • Gregory Mendel, Established the patterns of heredity

    Gregory Mendel, Established the patterns of heredity

  • Joseph Lister

    Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery

  • Clara Barton, founded the American Red Cross in 1881

  • Louis Pasteur

    Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria, vaccine for rabies

  • William Roentgen- Discovered X-rays in 1895

  • Marie Curie, isolated radium

    Isolated Radium

  • Sir Alexander Fleming, discovered penicillin

  • Jonas Salk

    Developed the polio vaccine
  • Louis Brown

    Louis Brown

    very first test tube baby born

  • Rhazes

    910 AD, an Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material