History of medicine

By Ienrique5
  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates
    Many writings on exam & treatment of patients. Strict code to maintain patient privacy and to never harm patients and is responsible for the Hippocratic oath.He became known as the father of medicine.
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Aristotle identified the heart as the most important organ of the body. He argued that the expansion and contraction of the heart was a function of its role as an intelligent organ.
  • 340 BCE

    Medical symbol Asclepius

    Medical symbol Asclepius
    Asclepius - Greek god of healing. Priest healers adopted the rod of Asclepius as their symbol. Modern adaptation is still a healthcare symbol.
  • 129 BCE

    Galen

    Galen
    Physician to the gladiators. Doctrine to 4 bodily humors blood, phlegm, yellow & black bile. Documented spinal cord for movement of limbs. Performed tracheotomy to cure breathing difficulties.
  • 335

    Herophilus

    Herophilus
    Studied the nervous system and created a book about it.
  • 541

    Bubonic plague

    Bubonic plague
    Bubonic plague killed 10,000 people a day. Also called Black Death. A rare but serious bacterial infection that's transmitted by fleas.
  • 643

    Chen ch’üan

    Chen ch’üan
    Chinese physician describes symptoms of diabetes mellitus including thirst and sweet urine. He was able to tell if it was sweet by tasting it or smelling it.
  • 854

    Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Documented the difference between smallpox and measles. Compiled by Persian philosopher Avicenna, also made the book of healing
  • 980

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
    Created the book of healing. Avicenna has been called the Father of Modern Medicine. Also created the canon of Medicine.
  • 1088

    First medical school

    First medical school
    University of Bologna – School of Medicine and surgery: The charter for this university comes from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, but historians have traced its origins back to 1088.
  • 1500

    Johannes gutenburg

    Johannes gutenburg
    Created the printing press.
  • 1506

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    His anatomical studies began in 1506 with his dissection of a 100-year-old man called it vitruvian man.
  • 1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    Created De Humani Corporis Fabrica. First accurate work on anatomy. Founder of modern human anatomy.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Know for his work on the development and improvement of the microscope. Also for his subsequent contribution towards the study of microbiology.

  • James Lind

    James Lind
    James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    Develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease

  • René Laennec

    René Laennec
    Creater of the stethoscope while working at the Hôpital Necker, and pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions

  • James blundell

    James blundell
    James blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.

  • Joseph lister

    Joseph lister
    Insisted on clean instruments and hands between patients used carbolic acid. Also created the mouthwash listerine.

  • Crawford W. Long

    Crawford W. Long
    Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic

  • Wilhelm Conrad roentgen

    Wilhelm Conrad roentgen
    He produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays.

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    He introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups. Blood transfusions became safer.

  • Casimir Funk

    Casimir Funk
    The discovery of the vitamins was a major scientific achievement in our understanding of health and disease. In 1912, Casimir Funk originally coined the term "vitamine

  • James B Herrick

    James B Herrick
    He concluded that the slow, gradual narrowing of the coronary arteries could be a cause of angina. He's also credited with inventing the term “heart attack.”

  • Earle Dickson

    Earle Dickson
    Invents the first band aid.

  • Frederick Banting

    Frederick Banting
    discovered the hormone insulin in pancreatic extracts of dogs. On July 30, 1921, they injected the hormone into a diabetic dog and found that it effectively lowered the dog's blood glucose levels to normal.

  • Henrietta Lacks: HeLa Cells

    Henrietta Lacks: HeLa Cells
    A HeLa cell splitting into two new cells. Also created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research.

  • Percy lavon Julian

    Percy lavon Julian
    Creator of steroids. He began work on synthesizing progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone from the plant sterols stigmasterol and sitosterol,

  • Wilson Greatbatch

    Wilson Greatbatch
    Wilson greatbatch, an electrical engineer who helped develop the first implantable pacemaker, a revolutionary device that since the 1960s has pumped life into millions of people. Cardiac pacemaker.

  • Robert Koffler Jarvik

    Robert Koffler Jarvik
    Creator of artificial heart. which required tubes leading from the patient to a small refrigerator-size compressor when it was implanted in Dr. Barney Clark at the University of Utah in December 1982