Medical man(1)

Medical Discoveries up to 1865

By katyj
  • May 10, 1010

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
    The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine are written.
  • May 10, 1249

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    Eye glasses are invented

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen
    Microscope is invented.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Blood cells are discovered.

  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    The fisrt vaccine for any disease is made. (For smallpox.)

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec
    The stethescope is invented.

  • James Blundell

    James Blundell
    Human blood is succesfully transfused for the first time.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell
    First woman to get a medical degree.

  • Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood

    Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood
    The syringe is developed.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Germs are identified as the cause of disease.

  • Rhazes

    Rhazes
    Smallpox are identified.