History of medicine

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  • 2600 BCE

    Egyptian imhotep describes the diagnosis and treatment of 200 diseases

  • 460 BCE

    Birth of Hippocrates scientific study begins

  • Period: 400 BCE to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • 300 BCE

    Diocles wrote the first known anatomy book.

  • Period: 1 BCE to 400 BCE

    Ancient times

  • 60

    Pedanius discorides writes de matera medica

  • 130

    Birth of Galen the Greek physician to gladiators and roman emperors

  • 910

    Small pox identified by rhazes

  • 1010

    Avicenna writes a book called the book of healing and the canon of medicine

  • 1249

    Roger bacon makes spectacles

  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • 1543

    Human anatomy book published

  • Microscope invented by Zacharias jannsen

  • Blood cells discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek

  • Bacteria observed by Anton van Leeuwenhoek

  • Period: to

    Industrial revolution

  • Successful appendectomy performed by Claudius aymond

  • Vaccine for small pox (first vaccine ever)

  • Sir Humphrey Davy discovers anesthetic property of nitrous oxide

  • Stethoscope invented by Rene l'annéc

  • Successful transfusion of blood performed by James blundell

  • Period: to

    Modern era

  • First contact lenses invented

  • X-rays invented by Wilhelm Conrad roentgen

  • First vaccine for influenza

  • First vaccine for measles

  • First vaccine for rubella

  • First vaccine for chicken pox

  • First vaccine for pneumonia

  • First vaccine for hepatitis a

  • First vaccine to target cause of cancer

  • First vaccine for hepatitis b