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Medical History timeline

By silvafra000
  • 400

    Greeks

    B.C.E
  • 400

    Dark and Middle Ages

    to 1400 B.C.E
  • 460

    Hippocrates

    BC
  • 500

    Egyptians

    B.C.E
  • 500

    Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries

    BC
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus discovered America

  • William Harvey

    described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

  • The Renaissance

    AD or CE

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

    invented the microscope

  • Edward Jenner

    discovered the vaccination for smallpox

  • Joseph Lister

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

  • Rene Laennec

    invented the stethoscope

  • Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic

  • Robert Koch

  • Clara Barton

    Angle Of the Battlefield

  • First vaccine developed for cholera

  • AIDs were founded

  • First contact lenses developed

  • Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Jonas Salk

    discovered an altered polio virus vaccine

  • First vaccine developed for measles.

  • Louise Brown

    1st test tube baby

  • Albert Sabin

    creator of the pral polio vaccine which was more effective than Salk's vaccine