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460 BCE
Birth of Hippocrates
Hippocrates was seen to be the founding father of medicinal practices. He bases medicine on the objective observing and deductive reasoning. -
First Vaccine
First vaccine designed by Edward Jenner to ward off smallpox. In his experiment he injects his son with a small amount of small pox and then he then exposes the son to small pox 8 weeks later. Jenner is regarded as the founding father of immunology. -
Stethoscope
The stethoscope was invented by a french doctor Rene Laennec to avoid putting his ears on their chest. The first design was made with a rolled up paper tube and using it as a funnel. -
Antiseptic
Joseph Lister publishes a book on how to run a clean hospital. He reduces the deaths from infections in his hospital from 60% to 4% through the use of anti septic on medical tools and wounds. This is regarded as one of the most pivotal advancements in medicine. -
Aspirin
Felix Hoffman creates aspirin by synthesising acetyl saliclic acid. This was an improvement on the juice from a willow trees bark that was previously used since 400 bce as it irritated the wound. -
Blood compatability
Karl Landsteiner receives a nobel peace prize for the discovery of safe blood transfusions. And the first successful use of the technique happens 6 years later -
Antibiotics
The first antibiotic released was salvarsan and it was a huge advancement in the world of medicine. 100 years later and antibiotics are one of the most important medicines as it has increased the average humans lifespan by 23 years. -
Discovery of Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming. Penicillin is used to treat infections caused by bacteria and Fleming received a Nobel Peace Prize for this acheivment in 1945. -
COVID
A vaccine for COVID was developed in under a year which was no small feat. This was the first pandemic that had been universally deafeated