Important Medical Events

By andymoore14

  • Civil War Begins

  • Civil War Ends

  • Antiseptic Principle of Surgery

    Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery. He developed the use of antiseptic surgical methods.

  • Germ Theory of Disease

    Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur develop the germ theory of disease.

  • Vaccine for Cholera

  • Vacines for anthrax and rabies

    First vaccine is developed for anthrax in 1891 and rabies in 1892 by Louis Pasteur.

  • German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays

  • First vaccine for typhoid fever

  • First vaccine is developed for Bubonic plague

  • Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

  • Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood types

  • First Successful Blood Transfusion

  • World War 1 Begins

  • World War 1 Ends

  • Earle Dickson Inventsthe Band-Aid

  • Insulin first used to help people with diabetes

  • Whooping Cough

    First vaccine is developed for whooping cough.

  • vaccine for tuberculosis

    First vaccine for tuberculosis is developed.

  • Penicillin is Discovered

    Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin and its use as an antibiotic.

  • Vaccine for yellow fever

    First vaccine for yellow fever is developed.

  • Thyphus Vaccine

    First vaccine for typhus is developed.

  • First Blood Bank

    Bernard Fantus opens the first blood bank in Chicago.

  • World War 2 Begins

  • Influenza Vaccine

    First influenza vaccine is developed.

  • World War 2 Ends