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