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500 BC Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
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Greek father of medicine begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin
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Hippocrates was born around 460 BC on the island of Kos, Greece. He became known as the founder of medicine and was regarded as the greatest physician of his time
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Herophilus studies the nervous system
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Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
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Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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Born in 1632 he made the discovery of blood cells and he studied bacteria
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease
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He performed the first vaccination
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
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James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
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Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes
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First vaccine developed for tuberculosis
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Discovered penicillin
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The first artificial liver device was developed by Dr. Kenneth Matsumara
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Dr. Kenneth Matsumura is an oncologist in Berkeley, California and is affiliated with Highland Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years
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First vaccine to target a cause of cance
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researchers made a breakthrough by identifying conditions that would allow some specialized adult cells to be "reprogrammed" genetically to assume a stem cell-like state
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The first leg transplant takes place in Spain
