The History of Medicine

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Jan 1, 659

    First Use of A Substance For Tooth Fillings

    First Use of A Substance For Tooth Fillings
  • Jan 1, 754

    First Pharmacy Was Established In Baghdad

    First Pharmacy Was Established In Baghdad
  • Jan 1, 910

    Rhazes Identifies Smallpox

  • Jan 1, 1249

    Roger Bacon Invents Spectacles

  • Jan 1, 1310

    Anatomy and Dissection Is Being Developed

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Renaissance

  • Zacharius Jannssen Invents the Microscope

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Discovers Blood Cells

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Discovers Blood Cells
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Observes Bacteria

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Observes Bacteria
  • Giacomo Pylarini Gives the First Smallpox Inoculations

  • Claudius Amyand Performs the First Successful Appendectomy

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Rene Laennec Invents the Stethoscope

  • Elizabeth Blackwell is the First Woman to Get a Medical Degree

    Elizabeth Blackwell is the First Woman to Get a Medical Degree
  • Louis Pasteur Identifies Germs as Cause of Disease

  • First Vaccine Developed for Cholera

  • First Contact Lenses Developed

    First Contact Lenses Developed
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • Sir. Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin

  • First Vaccine Developed For Measles

  • Robert S. Ledley Invents CAT Scans

    Robert S. Ledley Invents CAT Scans
  • First Test-Tube Baby Is Born

    First Test-Tube Baby Is Born
  • HIV Is Identified

  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • Human Genome Project Is Successful With Results

    Human Genome Project Is Successful With Results
    Scientist had completed a draft sequence of all the genes that make up our DNA
  • Ian Frazer & Jian Zhou Create the First HPV Vaccine

  • Minimally Invasive/Robotic Techniques Make Surgery Easier and More Effective

    Minimally Invasive/Robotic Techniques Make Surgery Easier and More Effective
  • World´s First Artificiall Working Hand Made By David Gow

  • First Successful Face Transplant in Spain