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Medical History Timeline

By Haley Parker
  • 400

    Dark and Middle Ages

  • Jan 1, 1200

    First strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted.

    First strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted.
  • First dissection of human corpse.
    Jan 1, 1300

    First dissection of human corpse.

    First dissection of human corpse.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    First recorded regulations for mid-wives.

    First recorded regulations for mid-wives
  • Jan 1, 1400

    The Renaissance

  • Medical schools were built
    Jan 1, 1400

    Medical schools were built

  • First scientific study of human anatomy published.
    Jan 1, 1500

    First scientific study of human anatomy published.

    First scientific study of human anatomy published
  • Jan 1, 1500

    16-17th century

    William Harvey- described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

  • Blood circulation first described. Bacteria discovered.

  • Ben Franklin

    Invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person.

  • First law requiring licensed medical practitioners

    Obstertrics established as a separate branch of medicine.

  • Vaccination against smallpox devceloped

  • 19-20th century

    Joseph Lister- the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision

  • Joseph Lister

    The first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision

  • Ignas Semmelwelss

    Identified the cause of maternal infections and instituted hand washing. Medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, causing the death of many newborn babies and mothers. He died from a cut during an autopsy.

  • First practical anesthetic, ether, introduced

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell

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

  • Germ theory introduced

  • Rabies vaccine discovered

  • First succesffu polio vaccine

    First succesffu polio vaccine

  • Birth Control pill introduced

    Birth Control pill introduced

  • Christian Barnard

    performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.
  • First test-tube baby born

    First test-tube baby born

  • AIDS first recongnzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    AIDS first recongnzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention