Medical History Timeline

  • 460

    Hippocrates

    The Father of Medicine.
  • Jan 1, 753

    Romans

    Began public health and sanitation systems.
  • Jan 1, 1452

    1452-Leonardo da Vinci used dissections to draw human body

  • William Harvey

    Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.
  • Edward Jenner

    Developed a vaccine of smallpox
  • Gregory Mendel

    Established the patterns of heredity
  • Founded American Red Cross

  • William Roentgen

    Discovered X-rays
  • Marie Curie

    Isolated radium
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Discovered penicillin