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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year of 754. Pharmacies proved to be popular and soon other drugs stores opened. Link - http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/top-10-medical-advances-from-the-middle-ages/
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Physician Rhazes discover the disease smallpox in 910 link text
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Philosopher Roger Bacon created Spectacles, or known today as glasses. Link text
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Arnaldus de Villa Nova was a famous Spanish doctor who was thought to be an alchemists, astrologer, and a physician. He created general anesthesia.
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Vesalius wrote the De humani corporis fabrica, in the year 1543.This was the first major book in Anatomy
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The microscope was invented in 1590, by Hans Lippershey. This unlocked a whole new world for scientist and doctors.
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Ambroise Pare was an army surgeon who created the technique of tying arteries.
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1656 Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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1670 Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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1796 Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease
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1816 Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
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1846 William Morton, a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
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1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
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1867 Joseph Lister develops the use of antiseptic surgical methods and publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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1901 Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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1922 Insulin first used to treat diabetes
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Percy Lavon Julian a doctor who synthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis
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1942 Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic - ultrasound
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1950 John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker
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In 2001 a group of surgeon implanted an artificial heart into a patient who suffered from heart failure.
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In 2003 scientist and doctors mapped out all the genes of a humans DNA
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In 2005, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Marshall for his discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
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2006 First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Dr. Ben Carson is a very successful pediatric neurosurgeon. Some of his medical accomplishments are successfully separating a set of Siamese twins and preforming the first intra-uterine procedure to relieve pressure on the brain of a hydrocephalic fetal twin.
