The History of Medicine

  • 2700 BCE

    Merit Ptah

     Merit Ptah
    The first known famous female physician lived during 2700s BC. The healers of Sekhmet was called a goddess of healing for the Egyptians as like the women's their Merit Ptah.
  • 1500 BCE

    Ebers Papyrus

     Ebers Papyrus
    Is known as the first medical book dated thousand years ago.700 magical formulas and folk remedies meant to cure pain or suffering.
  • Period: 460 BCE to 370 BCE

    Hippocrates

    He is the founder of medicine and was founded as the greatest physician of all time. Started based on reasoning then beliefs on illnesses and the impending outcome of the illness, as well based his medical practice on humans body.
  • 370 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates
  • Period: 1 CE to 400

    Galen

    Ancient time: roman physician to the gladiators.Documentded importance of spinal cord for movement of limbs. Preformed thracheotomy to cure breathing difficulties.
  • Period: 98 to 138

    Soranus of Ephesus

    antenatal care, labour, and the management of malpresentation by internal version and breech extraction of a woman. Stateded that midwives have to help pregnet woman give birth by making them calm and stay in bed.
  • 138

    Soranus of Ephesus

    Soranus of Ephesus
  • 400

    Galen

    Galen
  • Period: 400 to 1400

    The middle age medicine

    The solution to people problems back then would be to use herbs and bug or sea creatures like leches to suck blood out the person who is sick
  • Period: 400 to 1400

    diseases of the middle ages

    Major diseases included smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, the plaque, and malaria during this era
  • Period: 400 to 1400

    occult healing

    The sick might also have turned to the occult: the dividing line between magic and medicine is not always obvious in medieval sources, and many medical practitioners used occult knowledge to heal the sick either by natural means (using, for example, herbs to treat or prevent illness or ward off danger) or using demonic magic, which attempted to use diabolical forces to intervene with human affairs.
  • 1010

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
    Avicenna writes, The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
  • Jan 1, 1200

    hygine

    hygine
    First strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted.
  • Period: 1346 to 1353

    The Black Death

    The Black Death killed almost about 50 million people in Europe continet. However the Black Death was bad it have advanced medicine and technology more after the event.
  • 1353

    Black Death picture

    Black Death picture
  • 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci

     Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses and write about them to see how the body of a man function and would able to help improve the medical of science in a good way
  • 1543

    Vesalius

    Vesalius
    Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    William Harvey publish a book named {An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals} in which it talk's about how blood pumped and go to the body to the heart and became the basis of modern research of the heart or the blood vessel.
  • Period: to

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells. Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes the use of bacteria
  • Sir Christopher Wren

    Sir Christopher Wren
    Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease.
  • Marijuana uses during the industrial revolution

    Napoleon invades Egypt with forces that include a scientific expedition team. In addition to discovering the Rosetta Stone, the team brings cannabis back to France in 1799. The cannabis was investigated for its pain relieving and sedative effects in Europe and became more widely accepted in Western medicine.
  • Sir Humphry Davy

     Sir Humphry Davy
    Sir Humphry Davy discovers the anesthetics properties of nitrous oxide.
  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
  • James Blundell

     James Blundell
    James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
  • Period: to

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    First women to be qualify as doctor in america. Elizabeth Blackwell have stated a movement that created opportunities for female physicians of the future, Blackwell as well have published several books over the course of her career, including her 1895 autobiography Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women.
  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
    He invented the first ever x-ray that we still use today. found x-ray while experimenting with a discharge tube which was enclosed with a thick black carton to avoid there being light in a dark room with a paper plate.
  • Almroth Edward Wright

    Almroth Edward Wright
    He discovers a vaccine for typhoid as well one for the pneumococcal diseases during {1911}
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

     Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming
    Alexander Fleming was the man who discovered penicillin.In 1928 while doing research into influenza Fleming was growing a culture of staphylococcus germs on a plate and by accident mold started growing on the plate and quickly noticed that the germs around the mold were killed, so Fleming made a liquid mold named penicillin and submitted his finding during 1929
  • Dr. Willem J. Kolff

     Dr. Willem J. Kolff
    He invented the first ever artificial kidney machine during world war two after seeing a person brutality die from kidney failure.
  • The first heart transplant is performed

    The first heart transplant is performed
    The first heart transplant is performed by Christiaan Barnard who changed the way how people have heart problems could fix it or need a new heart to live, also he lived from November 8,1922 and die on September 2, 2001.
  • The first test tube baby is born

    The first test tube baby is born
    The first test tube baby is born which is Louise Joy Brown making impact on the ways how to deliver baby differently
  • small pox is dead.

    small pox is dead.
    Smallpox is eradicated
  • Dolly the sheep

    Dolly the sheep
    Dolly the sheep is the first ever creation of cloning and succeeded however have only live for six years and die due to lung disease found in older sheep in which dolly the sheep was ageing faster then it should be but impacted a way of how cloning could provide man-kind in the future.