Medical HIstory

  • 512 BCE

    Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries

  • 300 BCE

    Diocles wrote the first known anatomy book

  • 280 BCE

    Herophilus studys the nervous system

  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    middle ages

  • 1249

    spectacles are made

  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • first microscope

  • Christopher wren experiments with canine blood transfusions

  • Anton Leeuwenhoek finds out about blood cells

  • Period: to

    industrial revolution

  • milkmaids exposed to cowpoxs

  • Crawford Long uses ether as a anesthetic for the first time

  • Charles Gabriel and Alexander Wood make a syringe

  • Louis Pasteur leads to the idea that germs are a cause of disease

  • First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague

    First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague
  • Period: to

    Modern world

  • Period: to

    21st Century