HIstory of Medicine

By ChrisG1101024
  • 1800 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

    Code of Hammurabi
    The Code of Hammurabi set out rules and fees for medicinal malpractice
  • Period: 1800 BCE to 200

    History of Medicine Years

  • Period: 1800 BCE to

    History of Medicine

  • 500 BCE

    Bian Que

    Bian Que
    Bian Que was the first physician to use accupuncture.
  • 420 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates
    Hippocrates created the Hippocratic oath. It includes things such as vowing to keep patient information private and, always working to help the patient.
  • 50

    Rufus of Epheseus

    Rufus of Epheseus
    Rufus of Epheseus was a physician in the first century.
  • 129

    Galen

    Galen
    Galen was the creator of the theory of the four bodily humors. The theory went that black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood had to be equal for health.
  • Jan 1, 620

    Aaron of Alexandria Syriac

    Aaron of Alexandria Syriac
    Aaron of Alexandria wrote over 30 books and acknowledged the diseases of smallpox and measles.
  • Jan 1, 865

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Rhazes made the first clear distinction between smallpox and measles.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Albucasis

    Albucasis
    Albulcasis created surgical instruments.
  • Jan 1, 1030

    Avicienna

    Avicienna
    Avicienna wrote "The Canon of Medicine", a book that would be used until the 18th century.
  • Jan 1, 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    Roger Bacon wrote about convex spectacles for treating long-sightedness.
  • Jan 1, 1540

    William Clowes

    William Clowes
    William Clowes was a military surgeon.
  • Jan 1, 1563

    Garcia de Orta

    Garcia de Orta
    Garcia de Orta was associated with tropical medicine in India.
  • Jan 1, 1570

    John Woodall

    John Woodall
    John Woodall was first to use lemon juice to treat scurvy.

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    William Harvey explained the circulatory system.

  • James Lind

    James Lind
    James Lind that citrus fruits cure scurvy.

  • Humphry Davy

    Humphry Davy
    Humphry Davy discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide.

  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister standardized proper hand-washing and sanitation procedures. He popularized antiseptics.

  • First Painless Surgery

    First Painless Surgery
    The first painless surgery took place using general anesthetics.

  • Germ Theory

    Germ Theory
    Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch created germ theory.

  • Louis Pasteur Vaccines

    Louis Pasteur Vaccines
    In 1881, Louis Pasteur developed the vaccine to Anthrax. The following year, he created the vaccine to rabies.

  • Karl Landstiener

    Karl Landstiener
    Karl Landstiener discovers the difference between blood types.

  • Alois Alzheimer

    Alois Alzheimer
    Alois Alzheimer recognizes the first case of what is now known as
    Alzheimer's disease.

  • Fredrick Hopkins

    Fredrick Hopkins
    Fredrick Hopkins discovers vitamins and their link to scurvy and rickets.

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming
    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

  • Egas Moniz

    Egas Moniz
    Egas Moniz developed the lobotomy. He later received a Nobel prize for his work on the lobotomy. This was later deemed one of the worst Nobel prizes ever awarded because of how inhumane the procedure was.

  • Joseph Murray

    Joseph Murray
    Joseph Murray preforms the first ever kidney transplant.

  • Rune Elmqvist

    Rune Elmqvist
    Rune Elmqvist developed the pacemaker.

  • Human Genome

    Human Genome
    The entire human genome had been mapped out.

  • Partial face transplant

    Partial face transplant
    the first face transplant.

  • prosthetic eye

    prosthetic eye
    the first visual prosthetic bionic eye Argus II