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The first pharmacy opens in Baghdad
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Rhazes discovers smallpox and distinguished it from measles
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Ammar ibn al-Mawsili performed the first successful eye surgery using a needle and removing a cataract
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Roger Bacon invents glasses
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establishes a hospital for eye diseases
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performed the first public dissection of a human body.
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a massive disease that depleted population in England
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The first c-section was performed and the baby lived to 77 years old
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The use of the scientific method begins.
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Allowed the study of smaller microorganisms like bacteria
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Curie discovers the science of radioactivity
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Uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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Louis Pasteur developed the first anthrax vaccine
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Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccine for rabies
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The first contact lenses are developed
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Felix Hoffman develops aspirin
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Plague hits San Francisco
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invented the band-aid to prevent infection
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Salk discovers the polio vaccine
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WHO declares smallpox as completely eradicated
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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used sterile maggots to treat infectious wounds
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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MIPPA provides incentives for practitioners that use electronic health records and e-prescribing
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a vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer is approved by the FDA
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney
