Medical Hitory Timeline

Greeks

400

Began study of disease. Started to blame diseases for sickness instead of gods and spirits. Doctors treat patients with respect. The Hippocratic Oath.

Dark Ages

410

First school of medicine

Jan 1, 1000

First school of medicine

first strict measures for control of public hygeine insitiuted

Jan 1, 1200

First Dissection of human corpse

Jan 1, 1300

FIrst Dissection of human corpse

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Jan 1, 1500

Andreas Vesalius and Leanardo da Vinci dissected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings.

First study of human anatomy

Jan 1, 1500

First study of human anatomy published

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Jan 1, 1550

Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope

Sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries

Jan 1, 1600

WIlliam Harvey discovered circualtion of the blood and pumping of the heart.

Eighteenth Century

Jan 1, 1700

Rene Laennec

First Mucury Thermometer

Jan 1, 1724

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Vaccinatiion against smallpox developed

Jan 1, 1796

By Edward Jenner

First Female Doctor In U.S.

Jan 1, 1849

Elizabeth Blackwell

First school of Nursing

Jan 1, 1850

Florence Nightingale

Pasteurizing milk to kill bacterias

Jan 1, 1864

By Louis Pasteur

American Red Cross

Jan 1, 1881

Founded by Clara Barton

Rabies Vaccine Discovered

Jan 1, 1885

Discovered X Rays

Jan 1, 1895

By William Roentgen

Blood Types

Jan 1, 1900

Blood types O,A,B, and AB are identified

Penicillin Drug Discovered

Jan 1, 1928

First antibiotic drug. Discovered by Sir ALexander Fleming

First polio vaccine

Jan 1, 1952

By Jonas Salk

Birth Control Introduced

Jan 1, 1960

First Heart transplant

Jan 1, 1967

Christian Bernard

Test tube baby born

Jan 1, 1978

Louis Brown

Aids became recognized

Jan 1, 1981

First Altered Polio Vaccine

Jun 24, 1995

By Jonas Salk

Clone Sheep

Jan 1, 1997

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

AL Qaeda group killed many Americans on U.S. ground