Timeline

  • Period: 380 BCE to 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    First known person to examine the relationship between disease and environment
  • Period: to

    John Graunt

    Developed first life table
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    looked at a sliver of cork through a microscope lens and noticed some "pores" or "cells" in it
  • Anton Van Leewenhoek

    Anton Van Leewenhoek
    First to see and discover bacteria
  • First Vaccine

    First Vaccine
  • Whooping Cough

    Whooping Cough
  • First Virus Identified

    First Virus Identified
  • Period: to

    Spanish Flu

  • Antibiotics First Discovers

    Antibiotics First Discovers
  • Period: to

    First Case of AIds in US

  • First Polio Vaccine

    First Polio Vaccine
  • Asian Influenza

    Asian Influenza
  • Period: to

    Hong Kong Influenza

  • First Cause Of AIDS

    First Cause Of AIDS
  • Period: to

    John Needham

    claimed that there was a "life force" present in the molecules of all inorganic matter, including air and the oxygen in it, that could cause spontaneous generation to occur.
  • Polio Eradiated

    Polio Eradiated
  • First Case Of HIV in the US

  • SARS epidemic

    SARS epidemic
    Severe acute respiratory syndrome a viral respiratory
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown
    Discovered the cell nucleus