Neolithic skeletons show illness
-99999
Ancient Chinese medical text
-3000
Imhotep of Egypt
-2699
Code of Hammurabi
-2299
Ayurveda Alternative medicine
-1599
Empedocles develops medical theory
-1499
Sumerian physicians diagnose disease
-9999
Invention of acupuncture
-2999
Theory of Yin and Yang
-2599
Edwin Smith Papyrus discovered
-1789
Ebers Papyrus written
-1500
Hippocratic Corpus written
-449
Aristotle's biology written
-399
Erasistratus of Ceos
-289
Medicine in ancient Rome
-199
De Medicina written
-89
Asclepius, God of Medicine
-450
Brahmanic hospitals established
-430
Herophilus of Chalcedon
-349
Alexandria rationalists
-249
Asclepiades of Bithynia
-99
Methodists develop disease theory
78
Soranus of Ephesus
141
Basil of Caesarea
161
Vienna Dioscurides
398
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
821
First mental hospitals built
911
Ccity of Salerno, Italy
983
De materia medica written
31
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
101
Galen of Pergamum
151
Saint Fabiola
371
Abbeys and monasteries develop
513
Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
841
Tamba Yasuyori writes Ishinho
919
Order of Saint Lazarus
1011
University of Bologna medicine
1151
Peter of Spain
1269
Mondino de Luzzi
1301
Compound microscope invented
1348
Syphilis appears
1494
The Canon of Medicine compiled
1001
Gerard of Cremona
1101
Roger Bacon on vision
1201
University of Montpellier medical school
1277
Black Death arrives
1317
Malaria epidemics
1451
Leonardo da Vinci draws anatomy
1495
Royal College of Physicians formed
1504
Dissolution of the Monasteries
1531
Girolamo Fracastoro studies syphilis
1544
Gabriele Falloppio
1553
First Cesarean Section documented
1575
Paracelsus introduces alchemical theory
1519
De humani corporis fabrica written
1541
Ambroise Paré reforms medicine
1547
Ulisse Aldrovandi
1562
Jesuit missionaries introduce quinine
1629
Mind-body dualism
1634
Marcello Malpighi
1649
Observationes Medicae published
1666
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
1678
De Motu Cordis published
1611
Daughters of Charity
1631
Jan Baptist van Helmont
1638
Bubonic plague kills many
1662
van Leeuwenhoek describes sperm
1677
Herman Boerhaave
1681
Alexander Monro teaches anatomy
1701
William Hunter publishes works
1734
James Lind prevents scurvy
1752
Benjamin Rush practices medicine
1766
William Cullen publishes book
1777
Benjamin Franklin invents bifocals
1781
Edward Jenner pioneers vaccination
1792
Stephen Hales measures blood pressure
1721
Pennsylvania Hospital established
1747
University of Pennsylvania opens
1758
John Hunter physician to King George III
1770
Jean-André Venel opens institution for crippled children
1779
Luigi Galvani muscle contractions
1785
Xavier Bichat
1797
Midwifery becomes widespread
1800
William Worrall Mayo
1803
Quinine, caffeine, and strychnine discovered
1820
François Magendie
1822
Louis Braille invents Braille system
1828
First USA dental school chartered
1833
Leukemia first described
1843
AMA Founded
1847
Phrenology proposed
1801
René Laennec describes stethoscope
1819
University of the Sciences founded
1821
Karl Ernst von Baer
1823
Cholera epidemics strike
1830
Edwin Chadwick
1841
General anesthetic first demonstrated
1846
Ophthalmoscope invented
1848
Claude Bernard
1852
Florence Nightingale invents modern nursing
1859
Louis Pasteur invents Pasteurization
1862
Claude Bernard
1865
Clifford Allbutt invents clinical thermometer
1866
Karl August Wunderlich
1868
Theodor Billroth performs surgery
1871
Jean-Martin Charcot opens neurological clinic
1882
Élie Metchnikoff works on immunity
1884
merican Physiological Society formed
1886
George Redmayne Murray treats myxedema
1891
Yersin and Shibasaburo work on bubonic plague
1894
Ronald Ross discovers malarial parasite
1896
US ANA Founded
1898
Sigmund Freud publishes 'The Interpretation of Dreams'
1899
Rudolf Virchow describes cells
1857
Paul Broca describes Broca's area
1861
Red Cross founded
1864
Joseph Lister develops techniques for antiseptic surgery
1865
Jean-Antoine Villemin works on TB
1867
Michael Foster establishes "Cambridge School of Physiology"
1869
Robert Koch finds cause of tuberculosis
1882
Friedrich Loeffler works on disease causation
1883
Louis Pasteur develops rabies vaccine
1885
Kitasato Shibasaburo works on Tetanus
1888
Johns Hopkins Medical School opens
1892
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X rays
1895
Shiga Kiyoshi discovers dysentery bacillus
1897
Ivan Pavlov works on Classical conditioning
1898
Rockefeller endows General Education Board
1902
Typhoid Mary incarcerated
1904
Alois Alzheimer works on Alzheimer's disease
1906
Paul Ehrlich works on syphilis
1910
Casimir Funk names vitamins
1912
Margaret Sanger opens birth control clinic
1914
Canadian scientists discover insulin
1919
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1928
Lawrence brothers treat cancer
1933
Willem Kolff develops artificial kidney
1944
Karl Folkers isolates Vitamin B12
1946
Linus Pauling works on Sickle cell anemia
1949
Karl Landsteiner identifies blood groups
1900
Ramón y Cajal works on the brain
1903
Charles Scott Sherrington publishes works
1905
Abraham Flexner publishes Flexner Report
1907
Eugen Bleuler terms Schizophrenia
1911
4 Americans discover Vitamin A
1913
Spanish flu kills millions
1917
US FDA Formed
1922
Gerhard Domagk discovers Prontosil
1929
Selman Waksman isolates streptomycin
1938
Penicillin developed commercially
1945
Cortisone discovered
1948
Open heart surgery first performed
1953
Earl Baaken develops pacemaker
1956
Thalidomide causes thousands of fetal deformities
1959
DNA discovered as a double helix
1950
Jonas Salk develops Polio vaccine
1954
Down syndrome cause described
1959
US Surgeon General concludes smoking causes cancer
1961
Christiaan Barnard performs 1st heart transplant
1966
US FDA approves female oral contraceptive
1960
US launches Medicare program
1965
CAT Scan developed
1968
American tobacco companies include package warnings
1971
César Milstein produces monoclonal antibodies
1974
In vitro fertilization pioneered
1977
USA legalizes abortion via Roe v. Wade
1972
Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire
1976
MRI scanning introduced
1979
WHO declares Smallpox eradicated
1980
Artificial heart implanted
1982
Muscular dystrophy causation discovered
1983
HIV virus discovered
1984
Prozac first prescribed in USA
1987
AIDS recognised as new disease
1981
US FDA approves genetically engineered insulin
1982
Baboon heart transplant
1984
1st genetically engineered vaccine produced
1985
Gene causing cystic fibrosis found
1988
US NIH approved 1st gene therapy
1990
Gene defect responsible for AT discovered
1995
Mad cow disease outbreak in England
1996
Tobacco CEO admits cigarettes cause cancer
1997
First cloned mammal produced
1997
Judah Folkman discovers treatment for cancer
1998
BRCA1 Gene discovered
1994
Protease inhibitors provide new treatment for AIDS
1996
Duties of Nurses expanded worldwide
1996
Bobbi McCaughey births septuplets
1997
US FDA approves Viagra
1998
AIDS epidemic worsens in Africa
1999
WHO starts ranking health care by country
2000
Diabetes becomes an epidemic in USA
2001
Cardiac arrest cases rise
2001
Scientists decode malaria genome
2002
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Adopted
2003
First Partial Face Transplant
2005
Approval of Rotavirus Vaccine
2006
First Full Face Transplant
2008
Entire human genome sequenced
2000
Medical use of Marijuana debated
2001
Anthrax-laced letters mailed in U.S.A
2001
SARS Outbreak and Global Alert
2003
Launch of Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
2005
Approval of First HPV Vaccine
2006
Introduction of Argus II Bionic Eye
2007
Shinya Yamanaka grows human liver from Stem Cells
2013
First Skull Transplant Using 3D Printing
2014
3D-Printed Heart from Human Patient's Cells
2019
First Successful Uterus Transplant from Deceased Donor
2011
First Kidney Grown In Vitro in the U.S.
2013
Creation of First Artificial Pancreas
2016
Complete Human Genome Sequenced
2022
WHO Launches Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for Mpox
2024
First COVID-19 Vaccine Approved
2020
WHO Ends COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
2023
Digital Rectal Examination (DRE) Deemed Outdated
2024