History of Medicine: Bibliography and Timeline
Dr. Ian Carr
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Bibliography
Clendening, Logan. Source Book of Medical History. New York: Dover, 1960.
Lyons, Albert S. and R.J. Petrucelli. Medicine An Illustrated History. New York: Abrams, 1978.
Magner, Lois N. A History of Medicine. New York: Dekker, 1992.
Majno, Guido. The Healing Hand, Man and the Wound in the Ancient World. New York: Classics of Medicine Library, 1991.
Major, Ralph Hermon. Classic Descriptions of Disease. Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1932.
Osler, William. Sir William Osler, 1849-1919: A Selection for Medical Students. Edited and with an Introduction by Charles G. Roland. Toronto: The Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1982.
Porter, Roy. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
References to Specific Topics
Historical Aspects of Aboriginal Medicine
Fenton, William N. Masked Medicine Societies of the Iroquois Smithsonian Institution. Ohsweken, Ont.: Iroqrafts, 1984.
Densmore, Frances. Indian Use of Wild Plants for Crafts, Food, Medicine and Charms. Ohsweken, Ont. : Iroqrafts, 1987.
Women in Medicine
Achterberg, Jeanne. Woman as Healer. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1990.
Bourdillon, Hilary. Women as Healers: A History of Women and Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
The Medical Timeline: A Chronology of Medical History
(adapted from Fielding H. Garrison's An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data)
| BC | |
| 4500 | Sumeria & Egyptian cultures start |
| 2980 | Imhotep (Egypt) and the pyramid builders |
| 2700 | Huang Ti (China) |
| 2250 | Code of Hammurabi |
| 1500 | Ebers papyrus |
| 460-431 | Periclean Athens |
| 460-370 | Hippocrates |
| 80 | Mithridates and his mixture |
| AD | |
| 14 -37 | Tiberius: Celsus |
| 117-138 | Hadrian Aretaeus Soranus |
| 131-201 | Galen |
| 369 | Hospital of St Basil, Caesarea |
| 476 | Fall of Western Roman Empire |
| 51 | Hotel Dieu Paris founded |
| 848-1811 | School of Salerno |
| 860-932 | Rhazes |
| 871-901 | Alfred the Great King of England |
| 1098-1179 | Hildegarde of Bingen |
| 1158 | University of Bologna |
| 1137 | St. Bartholomew's Hospital London |
| 1222 | University of Padua |
| 1270 | Invention of spectacles-Venice |
| 1300-1368 | Guy de Chauliac |
| 1322 | Examination of Jacoba Felicie |
| 1347 | Black Death |
| 1336-1453 | Hundred Years War |
| 1440-1450 | Printing |
| 1493-1551 | Paracelsus |
| 1492 | Discovery of America |
| 1494 | Syphilis appears in Europe |
| 1505 | Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh |
| 1510-1590 | Ambroise Pare |
| 1520 | Magellan's voyage plagued by scurvy |
| 1532 | London bills of mortality |
| 1543 | Vesalius at Padua; De Fabrica |
| 1578-1657 | Harvey; 1628 De Motu Cordis |
| 1605 | Champlain; autopsy on scurvy |
| 1639 | Hotel Dieu de Quebec |
| 1665 | Great Plague of London |
| 1673 | Leeuwenhoek: microscope |
| 1701 | Mary Wortley Montague -- variolation at Constantinople |
| 1770 | William Hunter's Anatomy School, London |
| 1780 | Benjamin Franklin: bifocal lenses |
| 1796 | Edward Jenner: vaccination |
| 1811 | Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston |
| 1815 | Waterloo; Laennec & auscultation |
| 1817 | Cooper: Ligation of abdominal aorta |
| 1824 | Medical teaching Montreal & Toronto |
| 1830 | Cholera epidemics |
| 1843 | OW Holmes: cause of puerperal fever |
| 1842-7 | Anaesthesia: Long, Morton, Wells,Simpson |
| 1849 | Elizabeth Blackwell graduated |
| 1857 | Florence Nightingale |
| 1867 | Lister: antiseptic surgery |
| 1867 | Emily Stowe graduated |
| 1871-2 | Hospitals in Winnipeg |
