The Beginning of Medicine

By jess.0803
  • Jan 1, 1249

    Glasses

    Roger Bacon invents spectacles
  • Jan 1, 1489

    Autopsey

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • Microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Blood Cells Discovered

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • First Blood transfusion

    British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.

  • Anesthetic

    Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

  • Anesthetics

    Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

  • Contact Lenses

    First contact lenses developed

  • Tetanus

    Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines

  • X-Rays

    German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.

  • Aspirin

    Felix Hoffman develops aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid). The juice from willow tree bark had been used as early as 400 BC to relieve pain.

  • Stethescope

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • Diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Tuberculosis

    First vaccine for Tuberculosis created

  • Influenza

    First vaccine for influenza was developed.

  • Pacemaker

    John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker

  • Vaccine for Measles

    First vaccine developed for measles

  • HIV/ AIDS

    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

  • Cancer Vaccine

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Stem Cell Research

    Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.