Timeline: Medicine
| Years: c. 2000 BCE - 2011 | Subject: Medicine and health |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191737336 |
| Year | Event |
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| c. 2000 BCE | Go to Disease in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 550 BCE | Go to Sushruta in A-Z of Plastic Surgery (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Āyurveda in A Dictionary of Hinduism (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 400 BCE | Go to Hippocrates in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 280 BCE | The Alexandrian school of medicine develops an alarming form of clinical anatomy – human vivisection Go to Herophilus in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 100 BCE | Go to Acupuncture in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 50 | Go to Cornelius Celsus, Aulus in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 158 | Go to Galen (ad 129–199) in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 950 | Go to Italy in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1000 | Go to Cordoba in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1087 | Go to Domesday Book in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1489 | Go to Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1500 | Go to Aboriginals and European diseases in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1513 | Go to midwife in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1543 | See this event in other timelines: |
| 1545 | Go to Paré, Ambroise (c.1510–90) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1564 | Go to condom noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1580 | |
| 1610 | Go to caesarean section noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1628 | Go to Harvey, William (1578–1657) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1658 | Go to Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1665 | Go to Royal Society in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1667 | Go to transfusion in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1717 | Go to Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1752 | Go to midwifery in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1761 | Go to percussion n. in A Dictionary of Nursing (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1775 | Go to Cook, James (1728–79) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1784 | Go to Franklin, Benjamin (1706–90) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1785 | Go to Withering, William (1741–99) in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1796 | Go to Jenner, Edward (1749–1823) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hahnemann, Samuel (1755–1843) in A Dictionary of Dentistry (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1816 | Go to Laënnec, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781–1826) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1828 | Go to Burke and Hare [Crime] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1832 | Go to cholera in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1846 | Go to Morton, William Thomas Green (1819–1868) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1847 | Go to Simpson, Sir James Young in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1851 | Go to Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821–1894) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1853 | Go to hypodermic syringe in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1854 | Go to quinine in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Snow, John (1813–1858) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1855 | Go to Black British literature in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1860 | Go to Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1861 | Go to puerperal sepsis in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1865 | Go to Lister, Joseph (1827–1912) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1875 | Go to measles in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1882 | Go to Koch, Robert (1843–1910) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1885 | Go to rabies virus vaccines in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1887 | Go to Fick, Adolf Eugen (1829–1921) in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1897 | Go to Ross, Ronald (1857–1932) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1900 | Go to aspirin n. in A Dictionary of Psychology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849–1936) in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1903 | Go to radiotherapy in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Einthoven, Willem (1860–1927) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1904 | Go to Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1906 | Go to Wasserman reaction in Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bordet, Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent (1870–1961) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to allergy in Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Alzheimer's disease in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1907 | Go to tuberculosis in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1909 | Go to Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri (1866–1936) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1910 | Go to sickle cell anaemia in A Dictionary of Biomedicine (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1911 | Go to Adler, Alfred (1870–1937) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1912 | Go to Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1915 | Go to Typhoid Mary in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Serbia in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1916 | See this event in other timelines: |
| 1918 | Go to Influenza in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1920 | See this event in other timelines: |
| 1921 | Go to Adler, Alfred (1870–1937) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1922 | Go to Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (1891–1941) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1923 | Go to Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1928 | Go to Ellis, Henry Havelock (1859–1939) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: See this event in other timelines: Go to Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881–1955) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1932 | Go to Tuskegee Experiment. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1937 | Go to Perutz, Max Ferdinand (1914–2002) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1938 | Go to iron lung in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1940 | Go to penicillin in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1950 | Go to Doll, Sir Richard Shaboe (1912–2005) in A Dictionary of Statistics (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1953 | Go to Salk, Jonas Edward (1914–1995) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1960 | Go to Birth Control and Family Planning. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1961 | Go to thalidomide in The Oxford Companion to the Body (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1962 | Go to Charnley, Sir John (1911–1982) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1964 | Go to cardiothoracic surgery in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1967 | Go to Barnard, Christiaan Neethling (1922–2001) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1969 | Go to in vitro fertilization in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1972 | Go to Tuskegee Experiment. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1978 | Go to in vitro fertilization in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1979 | Go to smallpox in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1981 | Go to AIDS in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1986 | Go to zidovudine in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1998 | Go to Viagra n. in A Dictionary of Psychology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2000 | Go to human immunodeficiency virus in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2003 | Go to severe acute respiratory syndrome in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2005 | Go to SARS in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to transplant in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2007 | Go to Red Cross, International in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2009 | Go to World Health Organization in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2011 | Go to stem cells in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
