The history of medicine

By Randy45
  • 510 BCE

    Alcmaeon

    He was the most eminent philosopher and medical theorist.
  • 460 BCE

    Diocles

    Diocles didn't live long but was a well philosopher. Second to Hippocrates.
  • 460 BCE

    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates is known to be the father of all medicine.
  • 335 BCE

    Herophilos

    Herophilos was a greek physician. He wanted to be the first anatomist ever, and he sure did.
  • 130 BCE

    Galen

    Galen was a medical author. Making many books about medicine.
  • 854

    Rhazes

    Rhazes built upon ideas of Hippocrates. Also documented the difference between smallpox and measles.
  • 1214

    Roger Bacon

    Roger was a doctor. He mostly studied nature and its key points.
  • 1346

    Bubonic Plauge

    The bubonic plague or black death estimated killing 75 to 200 million people. Doctors would wear a mask and shove things into the nose to not get infected.
  • 1350

    Cannon of medicine

    Compiled by Avicenna. 5 volumes about greek and Arabic medicine.
  • 1452

    Leonardo daVinci

    Leonardo was known for one thing, ART. And he did just that by drawing the human body and its parts.
  • 1575

    Zacharias Janssen

    He was a spectacle maker. HE is belived to have been the creator of the microscope.
  • 1578

    William Harvey

    First person to describe in detail systematic circulation.

  • Smallpox

    Smallpox quickly spread and killed many. But it has been destroyed as of 1980.

  • Anatomy

    Formerly forbidden by the church. This corrected main ideas.

  • Claudius Amyand

    He recorded the first successful appendectomy.

  • Edward Jenner

    The man who created the cure for smallpox with cowpoxs. First studied on a young boy and was fine within weeks.

  • Capillaries

    Smallest blood vessels.

  • James Blundell

    Found the blood types A +, A-, O, B. Successfully transmitted human blood to another.

  • Stethescopes

    First made in a hospital and was a wooden tube. The doctor didn't feel comfortable putting his chest on a womens chest so did that instead.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Was the first girl to get a medical degree. Also first one in the Uk to register.

  • Contact lenses

    Instead of using glasses a glassblower found a way to make glasses but smaller.

  • Alexander Fleming

    Alex carried on the study of medicine and mad more. Went to medical school.

  • Earle Dickson

    The inventor of the band aid. Used cotton and tape and fixed it up.

  • Chen Chuan

    Chen noted the symptoms of thirst.

  • HeLa cells

    Henrietta Lacks died of cancer, they had cells taken from her body without her knowledge.

  • Dr.Joeseph

    The first kidney that was transplanted was in 1954.The kidney was transported into his identical twin.

  • Ultrasounds

    A ultrasound is used to observe a fetus while still inside of the mother. Today every pregnant woman has many of these.

  • Radicum

    We have a cure for cancer, all though we don't want to leake it. It is not affordable at all.

  • Medical Marijuana

    Marijuana has taken the world by storm, and now suddenly everyone is having problems.

  • Robots

    Robots are now doing surgeries instead of doctors.