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In 65 A.D., Dioscorides, a Greek, wrote his Materia Medica (13.152.6).
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Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier (1157–1202) permitted anyone who had a medical license to teach there, regardless of religion or background. (1157–1202) permitted anyone who had a medical license to teach there, regardless of religion or background.
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Hildegard of Bingen- wrote the Liber simplicis medicinae (simple book of medicine)
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The Black Death started from the disease that was carried around by the rats in England which spreaded to humans and all over Europe
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Sick children
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, made one of the earliest microscopes. The detail the revolutionary microscopes could see allowed the English scientist Robert Hooke to observe cells for the first time. In 1661 the Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi identified capillaries which finally showed the link between arteries and veins and proving Harvey's theory for the circulation of blood.
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William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart
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As the understanding of the body increased, so did the development of new medicines. as people started to interact with each other through trade and explorations it allowed the spread of global disesase
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979.
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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Edward Jenner is credited with the development of vaccination but in fact it was first introduced into England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1721. She tried a method that was used in Turkey where people deliberately infected themselves with a mild form of smallpox. This was the first form of innoculation
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Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease
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X-rays were discovered in 1895 by the German Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. He was studying cathode rays produced by a recently-invented piece of equipment called a Crooke's tube when he noticed that a fluorescent screen across the room started to glow
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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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First vaccine developed for diphtheria
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First test-tube baby is born
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Smallpox is eradicated
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In July 2001,a group of surgeons from Louisville. Kentucky managed to implant a new-generation artificial heart in a patient.Dubbed AbioCor,the device was implanted in a man who suffered from heart failure.The artificial heart was developed by Abiomed,Inc.
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In 2003 only 75 cities in the U.S had law that prohibited smoking in restaurants,in attempt to lower the number of people affected by second hand smoke along with improving the indoor air quality.
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A draft of the human Genome Project was released in 2000.The HGP was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up human DNA.They mapped all the genes of the Human Genome from a physical and a functional stand point.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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William Gahl recently set up the Undiagnosed Diseases Program to hunt for the answer to mysterious diseases that have defied all other medical experts.
