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300 BCE
Smallpox
Smallpox was a disease. On average 3 out of every 10 people who got it died. Those who survived were usually left with scars that may be severe. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between small pox and measles -
Jan 1, 1249
Roger bacon
Invents spectacles (glasses) -
Jan 1, 1346
Black Death
One of the most devastating pandemics in human history -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renassance
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Zacharius Jannssen
Invents the microscope -
Medical Plants
Plants have been the source of treatment and prophylaxis -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Smallpox Inoculations
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations -
James Lind
Discovers that circus fruits prevent scurvy -
Appendecotomy
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful Appendecotomy -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Rene Laennec
Invents the stethoscope -
Cholera
First vaccine developed for cholera -
Rabies
First vaccine developed for rabies -
Contact Lenses
First contact lenses were developed -
Wihelm Conrad Roentgen
Discovers X-Rays -
Period: to
Modern World
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Earl Dickson
Invented the Band-aid -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovers penicillin -
Benard Fantus Pioneers
Used the first blood bank in Chicago -
Smallpox
Smallpox is eradicated -
Hepatitis A
First vaccine developed for hepatitis A -
Human genome
First draft of human genome is announced -
Period: to
21st Century
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Cancer
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
Scientist
Scientist discover how to use the human skin cell to create embryonic stem cells -
FDA
The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed -
Mammoth genome
Scientists successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
