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- The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years
- Medicine practiced only in monasteries and convents.
- Used herbal medicine
- There were many epidemics and plagues - bubonic plague, smallpos, diptheria, syphilis, tuberculosis.
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The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other European intellectual pursuits. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine.
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The father of the microscope is born.
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Ben Franklin invents the Bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person.
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Developed a vaccine for smallpox.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.
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Sigmund Freud is born. The man grew up to study the effects of unconscious mind on the body. He determined that the mind and body work together. His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry.
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Established the patterns of heredity.
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The American Red Cross was founded.
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Discovered X-Rays.
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Radium had been Isolated.
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Developed the polio vaccine in 1952
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In 1967 performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.
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In 1972 Friedmann and Roblin authored a paper in Science titled "Gene therapy for human genetic disease?"
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Louis Brown was the first test tube baby, she was born in 1978 (Great Britain)
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Aids was identified sometime in this timespan.
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The year the sheep was cloned. Tissue Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original. Dolly the Sheep was cloned.
