The history of medicine

By yass2queen
  • Herbal medicine
    3300 BCE

    Herbal medicine

    During the Stone Age, early doctors used very primitive forms of herbal medicine.
  • 400 BCE

    Published Findings in Chinese Medicine

    The Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine) is published, laying the framework for traditional Chinese medicine
  • 280 BCE

    Nervous system

    Herophilus studies the nervous system and distinguishes between sensory nerves and motor nerves and the brain. Also the anatomy of the eye.
  • 250 BCE

    Parts of the brain

    Erasistratus studies the brain and distinguishes between the cerebrum and cerebellum physiology of the brain, heart and eyes, and in the vascular, nervous, respiratory and reproductive systems.
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • The invention of pharmacies
    Dec 31, 754

    The invention of pharmacies

    The first pharmacy and the ideas of pharmacies overall was invented and established in Baghdad in the year 754.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • Leonardo Davinci
    1519

    Leonardo Davinci

    He dissected human corpses to study tendons, bones, and muscles. He was permitted to study human corpses in some hospitals by dissecting them.
  • Invention of the microscope

    Invention of the microscope

    Microscope was invented, which played a huge part in medical advancement

  • Differentiation of Veins

    Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heart

  • Treatments for scurvy

    John Woodall Ship surgeons used lemon juice to treat scurvy.

  • Inoculation/vaccine in England

    Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations in Europe. They were widely practised in the East before then.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Discovery of Morphine

    Morphine was first isolated by Friedrich Sertürner, this is generally believed to be the first isolation of an active ingredient from a plant.
  • Invention of stethoscope

    Invention of stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
  • First surgery with anesthesia

    First surgery with anesthesia

    Crawford Long performs the first surgical operation using anesthesia with ether.
  • Florence Nightengale

    Florence Nightengale

    Florence Nightingale impacted attitudes to hospital hygiene, nursing, and the role of women in healthcare.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Louis pasteur realized what caused diseases and also invented and developed the Rabies vaccine in 1878.
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Discovery of Alzheimer's

    Alois Alzheimer identifies the first case of what becomes known as Alzheimer's disease
  • Discovery of Bloodtypes

    Discovery of Bloodtypes

    Karl Landsteiner discovers the existence of different human blood types
  • Discovery of Insulin

    Discovery of Insulin

    Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin – important for the treatment of diabetes

  • Vaccine for Tuberculosis

    First vaccine for tuberculosis.

  • Vaccine for tetanus

    First vaccine for tetanus
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • First Partial Face Transplant

    First Partial Face Transplant

    Jean-Michel Dubernard performs the first partial face transplant.

  • First HPV vaccine

    First HPV vaccine approved.

  • First uterus transplant

    first successful Uterus transplant from a deceased donor in Turkey

  • 3D printed skull

    A 3D printer is used for first ever skull transplant.

  • 3D printed heart

    3D-print heart from human patient's cells.