History of Medicine

By eilish
  • 250

    Ercisistratus studies the brain and distinguished between cerebrum and cerebellum

  • 300

    Diocles wrote the first known anatomy book.

  • 500

    Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries.

  • Sep 6, 1559

    Realdo Colombo describes the circulation of blood through the lungs in detail.

  • Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells.

  • Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.

  • First painless surgery with general anaesthetic.

  • Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of diseases.

  • First vaccine developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur.

  • First contact lenses developed.

  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers x-rays.

  • First vaccine developed for Bubonic Plague.

  • Felix Hoffman developed aspirin.

  • James Watson and Francis Crick work on the structure of the DNA molecule.

  • Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant.

  • First vaccine developed for chicken pox.

  • first vaccine developed for Pheumonia

  • Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone.