History of Medicine

History of Medicine


2600 BC
The Egyptian "Imhotep" described the diagnosis and treatment  for 200 diseases
 

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500 BC
Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries

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460 BC
Birth of (Hippocrates) ,the Greek father of medicine who begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin
 

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300 BC
( Diocles) wrote the first known anatomy book

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280 BC
Herophilus studies the nervous system

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130 AD
Birth of Galen. Greek physician to gladiators and Roman Emperors

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c60AD
Pedanius Dioscorides writes De Materia Medica

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910
Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox

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1010
Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine

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1249
Roger Bacon invents spectacles

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1489
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses  

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

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1590
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope  

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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
 

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1656  
Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions  

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1670
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

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1683
Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria.

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1701
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations  

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

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1763
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy

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1796
Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease
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1800
Sir Humphry Davy discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

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1816
Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

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1818
 James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

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1842
Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic

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1844
Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

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

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1849
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
 

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1847
 Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to the prevent the transmission of puerperal fever

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1853
Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe

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1857
Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

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

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1870
Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur establish the germ theory of disease

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1879
First vaccine developed for cholera  

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1881  
First vaccine developed for anthrax by Louis Pasteur  

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1882
First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur
Koch discovers the TB bacillus

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1887
First contact lenses developed

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

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1895
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays

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1896
First vaccine developed for typhoid fever

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1897
First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague

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1899
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

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

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1913
 Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph - ECG

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1921
-Edward Mellanby discovers that lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets
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1921
-Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid
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1922
Insulin first used to treat diabetes

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1923
First vaccine developed for diphtheria

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1926
First vaccine developed for whooping cough

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1927
First vaccine developed for tuberculosis
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1927
First vaccine developed for tetanus
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1928
Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

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1935
-First vaccine developed for yellow fever
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1935
-Percy Lavon Julian synthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis
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1937
First vaccine developed for typhus
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1937
Bernard Fantus pioneers the use the first blood bank in Chicago
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1942
Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonics - ultrasound

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1943
Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin

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1945
First vaccine developed for influenza

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1950
 John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker

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1952
Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker
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1952
Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine
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1952
Rosalind Franklin uses X-ray diffraction to study the structure of DNA
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1953  
James Watson and Francis Crick work on the structure of the DNA molecule

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1954
Gertrude Elion patented a leukemia-fighting drug
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1954
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant
 

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1955
Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine

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1963  
Thomas Fogarty invented the balloon embolectomy catheter

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1964
First vaccine developed for measles.

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1967
First vaccine developed for mumps
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1967
Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
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1970
First vaccine developed for rubella

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1974
 First vaccine developed for chicken pox

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1975  
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans

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1977
First vaccine developed for pneumonia.  

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1978
First test-tube baby is born
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1978
First vaccine developed for meningitis




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1980
Smallpox is eradicated

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1981
 First vaccine developed for hepatitis B

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1983
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

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1984
Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method

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1985
Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine

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1992
First vaccine developed for hepatitis A

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1996  
Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone

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2006
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer









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