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Period: 500 BCE to 400
Ancient Times
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460 BCE
Hippocrates
He wrote many books and, in them, described diseases and their treatments. He also went through very detailed observations on different diseases -
335 BCE
Herophilos
One of the first people to study human anatomy as well as to do public dissections on human cadavers. -
301 BCE
Piocles
Was a pupil to Aristotle and wrote many books on medicine but is known for his books on anatomy. -
131 BCE
Galen
Contributed to what is known about pathology today and developed the "Four Humours", which is a theory that the body was made up of four liquids, blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. -
90 BCE
Dioscordes
Known for writing De Materia Medica, which is a five-volume encyclopedia of herbal medicine/a pharmacopeia. It focused on the medicinal purposes of plants while writing these he worked as a surgeon under the Roman Emporer Nero. -
Period: 400 to 1400
Middle Ages
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754
First public pharmacy/drugstore
It was opened in Baghdad as during the Islamic Golden Age, Avicenna had a large part in working to create it. -
865
Rhazes
Abu Bakr Muhammed ibn Zarkariya al-razi, otherwise known as Rhazes, a Persian physician/philosopher. He is known to be a leading scholar of the early Islamic world. He wrote encyclopedic reviews of medicine that were translated and used as textbooks for medical students. -
980
Avicenna
A Persian polymath who studies in medicine and psychology. He was a well-known figure and is popular for introducing pharmacology to people. -
1214
Roger Bacon
Known as Doctor Mirabilis, he wrote many books on different sciences. He is popular for being a creator of the scientific method, as well as studying nature through empiricism. -
1231
First Medical School
This was opened in 1231 for a place medical students could learn about their passion, It was opened in Salerno Italy, it was called Schola Salerno. -
Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
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1452
Leonardo da Vinci
He is popular in the medical field for drawing out human anatomy with very precise details, he was also the first to draw out the thyroid. -
1543
Vesalius
He is the man to write the famous well-known anatomy book "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" which his drawings are iconic for their detail and amazing preciseness. -
First Microscope
Invented by the Janssen brothers and Galileo, its issues were that the images and the things the user was looking at where blurry. -
William Harvey
Harvey studied the body and published work about how the heart, veins, and blood are connected as well as their movement of throughout the body. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek discovered blood cells by looking at blood under a microscope, this happened during the Golden Age of Dutch Science. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Jenner developed the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine. -
Claudius Amyand
Amyand was a French surgeon, he completed the first successful appendectomy. -
Sir Humphry Davy
Davy discovered that nitrous oxide can be used as an anesthetic for surgeries or procedures. -
First Stethoscope
Rene Laennec, a French physician created the stethoscope while working at Hôpital Necker. -
James Blundell
Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion in a patient. -
Period: to
Modern Era
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Crawford W. Long
The first surgeon to use ether as a general anesthetic during surgeries. Long would also spend time working as a pharmacist. -
Louis Pasteur
Pasteur was a French biologist and chemist, he is known for his studies on vaccines, fermentation of microbes, and the pasteurization method. -
Cholera Vaccine
The vaccine was found/created by Waldemar Mordecai Haffine, in 1879. -
Anthrax Vaccine
Created by Louis Pasteur to fight against anthrax, which has now been eliminated. -
Influenza vaccine
Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis created this vaccine, now with the power of their work influenza stopped killing people who were sick with it. -
Karl Dussik
He was the first doctor to make a diagnosis based off of a venous ultrasound image to lead to the diagnosis of a brain tumour. -
HeLa Cells
A type of immortal cell used in scientific research, it helped in treating things such as; cancer, AIDs, genetic diseases, vitro fertilization, and more. -
Small pox Eradicated
With the help of vaccines, there have been zero cases of smallpox in America. -
Dolly the sheep
Dolly is the first successful cloned animal, she was cloned using stem cells. -
Vaccine to target cancer
This vaccine was worked on by many different doctors, scientists, and specialists. The vaccine targets specific antibodies cancer has.
