Medical History Timeline

By abbycollins
  • 600 BCE

    Hippocratic Oath was created

    It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts
  • 1300

    First eyeglasses invented

    The eyeglasses were invented by a British optician Edward Scarlett

  • Stethoscope invented

    Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope at the Necker- Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris. She invented the stethoscope because because he was not comfortable placing his ear directly onto a women's chest to listen to her heart.

  • First painless surgery with general anesthetic

    The first public demonstration was done at the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston .

  • The first women to get a medical degree

    Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive and M.D. degree from an American medical school

  • First rubber condom

    The condom was invented by Charles Goodyear. The first condom was produced in 1855. The first condom was tested on someone before they produced it.

  • First practical medical thermometer used to take the temperature of a patient

    English physician, Sir Thomas Allbutt invented the first practical medical thermometer used for taking the temperature of a person It was portable, 6 inches in length and able to record a patient's temperature in 5 min.

  • Discovers medical use of x-rays in medical imaging

    Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovered x-rays. X-rays to allow physicians to see inside the body, to identify and/or rule out medical problems, and to diagnose diseases.

  • Discovery of ECG

    ECG stands for electrocardiography. Willem Einthoven discovered ECG. Willem was a dutch physician and physiologist. St. Mary's Hospital, London that is where ECG was invented.

  • Aspirin is invented

    Aspirin was invented in Germany. Felix Hoffman invented aspirin.

  • Discovery of Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Penicillin was discovered in London.

  • Invention of CPR

    Peter Safar and James Elam invented mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The United States military adopted the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation method to revive unresponsive victims.

  • First commercial ultrasound

    Obstetrician Ian Donald and engineer Tom Brown developed the first prototype systems based on an instrument used to detect industrial flaws in ships.George Döring Ludwig, an American professor of medicine, is credited with developing the first application of ultrasound for diagnosing gallstones. Ludwig uses reflective pulse-echo ultrasound to detect the presence of gallstones in animal tissues.

  • Performs the first human heart transplant

    On 3 December , a large medical, nursing, and technical team led by the surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first human to human heart transplant, placing Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa

  • The first full face transplant

    The world's first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out on November 27, by a team of surgeons led by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard and Professor Bernard Devauchelle in Amiens, France. The patient underwent surgery to replace her original face that had been ravaged by her dog.