History of Medicine

By Emily9374
  • Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300

    Middle Ages

  • 910

    910

    910
    Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
  • 1010

    1010

    1010
    Avicenna writes the Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
  • 1249

    1249

    1249
    Roger Bacon invented spectacles
  • Period: Jan 1, 1301 to

    Renaissance

  • 1489

    1489

    1489
    Lenardo da Vinci dissects corpses
  • 1543

    1543

    1543
    Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani

  • 1590

    1590
    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • 1628

    1628
    William Harvey publishes an Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart

  • 1656

    1656
    Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions

  • 1670

    1670
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • 1683

    1683
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

  • 1701

    1701
    Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • 1747

    1747
    James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy

  • 1763

    1763
    Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy

  • 1776

    1776
    Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease

  • 1816

    1816
    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • 1846

    1846
    William Morton, a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

  • 1867

    1867
    Joseph Lister develops the use of antiseptic surgical methods and publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

  • 1882

    1882
    First vaccine developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur

  • 1890

    1890
    Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines

  • 1895

    1895
    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays
  • Period: to

    Modern World

  • 1901

    1901
    Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups

  • 1927

    1927
    First vaccine developed for tetanus

  • 1945

    1945
    First vaccine developed for influenza

  • 1953

    1953
    James Watson and Francis Crick work on the structure of the DNA molecule

  • 1974

    1974
    First vaccine developed for chicken pox

  • 1978

    1978
    First test-tube baby is born

  • 1983

    1983
    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

  • 1985

    1985
    Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine

  • 2000

    2000
    First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three year later
  • Period: to

    21st Century

  • 2006

    2006
    First vaccine to target a course of cancer

  • 2007

    2007
    Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells

  • 2014

    2014
    The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California.

  • 2015

    2015
    In March, DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome

  • 2016

    2016
    The success of an first-time experimental surgery will determine future availability for U.S. cancer patients and veterans with injuries to the pelvic region. On May 8, 2016, a man named Thomas Manning is the first man to receive a penis transplant at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Manning's recovery from the surgery is going well; John Hopkins University School of Medicine is also hoping to start providing the surgery soon.