Medical Hitory Timeline

By Brady T
  • 400

    Greeks

    Began study of disease. Started to blame diseases for sickness instead of gods and spirits. Doctors treat patients with respect. The Hippocratic Oath.
  • 410

    Dark Ages

  • Jan 1, 1000

    First school of medicine

    First school of medicine
  • Jan 1, 1200

    first strict measures for control of public hygeine insitiuted

  • Jan 1, 1300

    First Dissection of human corpse

    FIrst Dissection of human corpse
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    Andreas Vesalius and Leanardo da Vinci dissected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    First study of human anatomy

    First study of human anatomy published
  • Jan 1, 1550

    sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

    sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
    Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope

  • Sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries

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

  • Eighteenth Century

    Rene Laennec

  • First Mucury Thermometer

    First Mucury Thermometer
    Gabriel Fahrenheit

  • Vaccinatiion against smallpox developed

    By Edward Jenner

  • First Female Doctor In U.S.

    First Female Doctor In U.S.
    Elizabeth Blackwell

  • First school of Nursing

    First school of Nursing
    Florence Nightingale

  • Pasteurizing milk to kill bacterias

    By Louis Pasteur

  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross
    Founded by Clara Barton

  • Rabies Vaccine Discovered

  • Discovered X Rays

    Discovered X Rays
    By William Roentgen

  • Blood Types

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

  • Penicillin Drug Discovered

    First antibiotic drug. Discovered by Sir ALexander Fleming

  • First polio vaccine

    By Jonas Salk

  • Birth Control Introduced

    Birth Control Introduced

  • First Heart transplant

    Christian Bernard

  • Test tube baby born

    Test tube baby born
    Louis Brown

  • Aids became recognized

  • First Altered Polio Vaccine

    By Jonas Salk

  • Clone Sheep

  • 9/11

    9/11
    AL Qaeda group killed many Americans on U.S. ground