IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

c. 2000–1500 BCE

The oldest known medical texts are written in ancient Egypt

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c. 600 BCE

The Indian physician
Sushruta writes the ancient
Sushruta Samhita

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c. 460 BCE

The Greek father of medicine, Hippocrates, is born

805 CE

The first public hospital
is established in
Baghdad, Iraq

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1347–1353

The Black Death
sweeps across Europe

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1590

The microscope
is invented

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1796

Edward Jenner develops the first successful
vaccine

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1817

The first cholera
epidemic spreads
across Asia

1859

Louis Pasteur conducts his swan-necked flask experiment

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1881

The nurse Clara Barton forms the American Red Cross

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1928

Sir Alexander Fleming uncovers penicillin

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1953

The structure of DNA is discovered

1972

Tu Youyou discovers a breakthrough drug to treat malaria

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1994

Polio is considered eliminated in North and South America

2019

COVID-19 pandemic begins