Health Occupations

By Jstanton164
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    Galen

    Birth of Galen, considered by many to be the most important contributor to medicine following Hippocrates.
  • 460

    Birth Of Hippocrates

    460 bce. the father of medicine

  • Microscope

    Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.
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  • James Lind

    Discovers citris fruits prevent scurvy.

  • Stethescope

    René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.

  • Blood Transfusion

    British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.

  • Nitrous Oxide

    Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.

  • First Woman

    Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to receive a medical degree (from Geneva Medical College in Geneva, New York).

  • Rabies

    First Rabies vaccine

  • Antitoxins

    Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.

  • xrays

    German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.

  • Typhoid Fever

    First vaccine for typhoid fever

  • Influenza epidemic

    Influenza epidemic begins

  • Diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Tuberculosis

    First vaccine for tuberculosis

  • Cardiac Pacemaker

    Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat.

  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk develops the first polio.

  • Measles Vaccine

    First Vaccine for measles

  • Chicken Pox

    Chicken Pox vaccine

  • Test tube baby

    First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.

  • Clone

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell (dies in 2003).

  • Stem Cells

    Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.

  • Influenza

    First vaccine for influenza

  • Smallpox

    Persian physician Rhazes is the first to identify smallpox