Medical History Timeline

By Ian Deleon
  • 420 BCE

    Hippocratic oath was created

    It is one of the oldest binding documents in history
  • 1285

    First eyeglasses were created

    older eyeglasses were similar to today's magnifying glasses

  • Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

    The stethoscope is made up of two greek words, stethos(chest) and scopos(examination)

  • Elizabeth Blackwell gets a medical degree

    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree

  • First painless surgery with general anesthetic

    Surgeries before that were a last result because of the tremendous amounts of pain it inflicted

  • The first rubber condoms were produced

    The sme person who made goodwell tires made the condom

  • The first practical medical thermometer used to take the temperature of a patient

    It was made by Sir Thomas Allbutt

  • Wilhelm Conrad discovered the medical use of X-rays in medical imaging

    X-rays were discovered by accident

  • Aspirin invented in Germany

    Aspirin was the first drug to be commonly used

  • Willem Einthoven discovers electrocardio therapy

    Electrocardio therapy is a graph of voltage versus time

  • Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin

    Penicillin is a mold that kills bacteria

  • First commercial ultrasound

    the first ultrasound was for clinical purposes

  • Invention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation

    Cpr was created in seattle

  • Christiaan Barnard creates the first human heart transplant

    It was performed in cape town, south africa

  • The first full face transplant

    It was performed by Laurent Lantieri