Medicine Timeline (History)

C. 3000 - Writing developing in Egypt

C. 400 - Cult of Asclepius popular

C. 420-350 - Hippocratic corpus

129 - Birth of Galen

476-- Fall of Rome

980-1037 - Life of Avicenna

1348 - Black death

1454 - Printing in Europe

1660 - Founding of Royal Society

1665 - Great plague of London

1720 - Innoculation in Britain

1796 - First vaccination

1831 - Cholera in Britain

1842 - Chadwick report

1846/7 - Ether and chloroform in use

1848 - 1st public health act

1854 - Cholera linked to water pollution

1857 - Germ theory (Pasteur)

1875- Public health act

1890 - Antiseptic in general use

1895 - First X-Rays

1896 - Bequerel discovers radioactivity

1900 - Blood groups discovered

1906 - Liberal reforms

1928 - Penicillin (Fleming)

1939-1945 - World War II

1951 - First kidney transplant

1953 - Structure of DNA identified

Late 1950s - The Pill

1981 - AIDS discovered

Medicine Timeline (History)