Medicine time line

By tzabala
  • Jan 1, 1249

    Spetacles

    Roger Bacon invents spectacles
  • Jan 1, 1489

    Corpses

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
  • Jan 1, 1543

    De Fabrica Corporis Humani

    Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani

  • Microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Animal Heart

    William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart

  • Canine blood Transfusions

    Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions

  • Blood cells

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Bacteria

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

  • Small pox inoculation

    Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculation

  • Small Pox

    Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox