Medical HIstory Timeline

  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    DARK AND MIDDLE AGES

    *STUDY OF SCIENCE STOPPED FOR 1000 YRS
    *USED HERBAL MEDICINE
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    THE RENAISSANCE

    REBIRTH OF SCIENCE-MEDICAL PRATICE JUS AS IT DID ALL EURPEAN INTELLECTUAL PRUSUITS
  • WILLIAM HARVEY

    WILLIAM HARVEY
    DESCRIBES THE VIRCULAION OF BLOOD AND THE PUMPING OF THE HEART
  • ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

    ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
    INVENTED MICROSCOPE
  • Period: to

    Revolution war

    the war for independance
  • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
    INVENTED BIFOCALS AND FOUND THAT COLDS COULD BE PASSED FROM PERSON TO PERSON
  • EDWARD JENNER

    EDWARD JENNER
    DEVELOPED A VACCINE FOR SMALLPOX
  • REME LAENNEC

    REME LAENNEC
    INVENTED THE STETHOSCOPE
  • IGNAZ SEMMELWEISS

    IGNAZ SEMMELWEISS
    IDENTIFIED CAUSE OF MATERNAL INFECTIONS AND INSTITUTED HAND WASHING.
  • ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

    ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
    BECAME FIST WOMEN TO QUALIFY AS A DOCTOR IN THE U.S. INSPIRED FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE TO PURSUE NURSING.
  • Period: to

    Civil war

    war between states the southern and northern part of the United States
  • JOSEPH LISTER

    JOSEPH LISTER
    FIRST DOCTOR TO USE AN ANISEPTIC DURING SURGERY TO PREVENT INFECTION IN THE INCISION
  • CLARA BARTON

    CLARA BARTON
    FOUNDED THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
  • ROBERT KOCH

    ROBERT KOCH
    "FATHER OF MICROBIOLOGY" DISCOVERED MANY DISEASE CAUSING ORGANISMS
  • SIGMUND FREUND

    SIGMUND FREUND
    STUDIED THE EFFECTS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND AND THE BODY
  • WILLIAM ROENTGEN

    WILLIAM ROENTGEN
    DESCOVED X-RAY
  • MARIE CURIE

    MARIE CURIE
    ISOLATED RADIUM
  • Period: to

    world war 1

    assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING

    SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING
    DISCOVED PENICILLIN
  • Period: to

    WW2

    GERMANY INVASION OF POLAND
  • JONAS SALK

    JONAS SALK
    DEVELOPED THE POLIO VACCINE
  • ALBERT SABIN

    ALBERT SABIN
    CRREATOR OF THE ORAL POLIO VACCINE WHICH WAS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN SALK'S VACCINE
  • CHRISTIAN BARNARD

    CHRISTIAN BARNARD
    PERFOMED THE WORLD'S FIRST HEART TRANSPLANT SURGERY
  • LOUIS PASTEUR

    RABIES VACCINE PROVED THAT MICROOGANISMS CAUSES DISEASE AND DISCOVERED THAT HEATING MILK PREVENTED GROWTH OF BACTERIA