Alex malone disease history timeline

Microscope is invented

Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers cells

Mary Wortley Montagu introduced variolation

Marcus Anton von Plenciz suggests that diseases are caused by tiny organisms

Edward Jenner uses cowpox to make the first smallpox vaccine

Jenner's smallpox vaccine becomes compulsory in england

Andrew Wakefield publishes a paper saying that vaccines cause autism

Matthias Schleiden suggests that plants are made of cells

Louis Pasteur disproves that life can appear out of nowhere

Joseph Lister publishes a study that associates microorganisms with infection