Time line of Medicine

  • Sleeping Sickness

    Sleeping Sickness

    Paul Erlich develops a cure for sleeping sickness
  • Insulin

    Insulin

    Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin which is important for the treatment of diabetes.
  • Diptheria

    Diptheria

    First vaccine for Diptheria
  • Pertussis

    Pertussis

    First vaccine for Pertussis is made
  • Tuberculosis

    Tuberculosis

    First vaccine for Tuberculosis
  • Penicillin

    Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  • Yellow Fever

    Yellow Fever

    First Vaccine for Yellow fever is discovered.
  • Polio

    Polio

    Jonas Salk creates the first polio vaccine
  • Measles

    Measles

    First vaccine for measles is created
  • Pet Scanner

    Pet Scanner

    The First Pet scanner is invented