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Medical History Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1200

    First Strict Rules on Public Hygiene

    First Strict Rules on Public Hygiene
    First strict rules were given to the public about their hygiene was instituted
  • Jan 1, 1300

    First Dissection of Human Copse was Proformed

  • Jan 1, 1500

    First Scientific study of human anatomy

  • Blood circulation described

  • Bacteria Discovered

    Bacteria Discovered
  • Declared Independence

    Declared Independence
  • Vaccine for Smallpox

    Vaccine for Smallpox
    Edward Jenner founded the vaccine from smallpox, since then smallpox has eradicded from the world.
  • George Washington bled to death

    His surgeon or his "physician" had a craft involving the hand and not the head.
  • First practical anesthetic introduced

  • Fedral controls drug supply

  • First Woman Doctor

    First Woman Doctor
    Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S
  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Germ theory introduced

    Germ theory introduced
  • Founded American Red Cross

    Founded American Red Cross
    Clara Barton founded the red cross to take care of wounded soliders in the war.
  • Rabies vaccine discovered

  • Discovered X-rays

    Discovered X-rays
    By Wilhelm Roentgen. It allowed doctors to see inside the body to discover what was wrong with a patient.
  • Major Blood types identified

  • Started Pure food and Drug Act

  • Isolated Radium

    Isolated Radium
    Marie Curie
  • Period: to

    WW1

  • Discovered Penicillin

    Sir Alexander Fleming
  • Fedral Food Drug and Cosmetic Act Expanded

    To fight problems such as an upsurge of cheap and easy to get medical devices.
  • Period: to

    WW2

  • Vaccine for Polio

    Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for the polio virus.
  • Birth control pill introduced

  • Performed worlds first heart transplant surgery

    Christian Barnard
  • First Test Tube Baby

    First Test Tube Baby
    Louise Brown was a scientific fertilization that successfully happened.
  • AIDS is Identified

    AIDS is identified and told to the public
  • Scientist clone sheep

  • Introduction to Asprin

    In ten years of being in the market it ranked among the 10 items most prescribed by American physicians.