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Dr. Rhazes finds out the difference between small pox and measles
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performed surgery, served with military and treated injuries during battle. striped poles we see in barber shops, is a symbol left over from when barbers were also surgeons.
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Physicians and surgeons were licensed to practice medicine. Jacoba Felicie tried the practice of medicine without a license, and was forbidden to practice again.
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Religion continued to play a role in healthcare. Islamic hospitals were found, and cared for illnesses, employed trained nurses, and maintained stocks of medication.
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Christian church persuaded followers to also help the sick and needy. Monasteries were specialized to treat the sick, who were often known as local healers. If medicine didn't work, prayers and rest would be considered treatment.
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The most famous medieval book on herbs is probably the "Red Book of Hergest," which was written in Welsh around 1390 C.E.
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Books were able to be published faster because of the invention of printing press. New discoveries and information would quickly be spread.
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In Europe, the scientific method was a major change in the way people thought about research and medicine.Scientific method was based on obversation and note taking.
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During this time, Robert Hooke had invented of the first reflecting microscopes. This invention allowed accurate observation of patients and symptoms.
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the study of human anatomy was forbidden by churches in the past
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Edward Jenner (1749–1823), an English doctor, discovered that milkmaids exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox
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Scientist Louis Pasteur came up with the food preparing process known as pasteurization; he also developed a vaccination for anthrax and rabies.
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Robert Koch was a German physician who is widely credited as one of the founders of bacteriology and microbiology
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Joseph Lister successfully introduced carbolic acid- now known as phenol- to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds.
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During the Industrial War, the Bubonic Pleague hit San Fransico killing milllions of rats, leaving humans with diseases.
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health. Receives the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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Edward Mellanby discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets.
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First vaccine for typhus.
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First vaccine for measles.
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.
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First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version was released three years later.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California.
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In March, DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
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On May 8, 2016, a man named Thomas Manning is the first man to receive a penis transplant at the Massachusetts General Hospital
