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the first hospital was established in Baghdad
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discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
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this 11th century scientist came up with a new explanation for vision through research on optics and the anatomy of the eye
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developed an antiseptic method where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing
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cesarean sections were practiced throughout the middle ages, but only when the mother had no chance of survival. this changed when a farmer named Jacob Nufer performed this successfully on his wife, everything changed
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Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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william publishes an anatomical study study of the motion of the heart and of the blood in animals which forms the basis for the future research on on blood vessels and the heart
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox vaccine, it was the first vaccine ever made
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Claudius Aymand performs the first appendectomy
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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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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease
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insulin first used to treat diabetes
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alexander flemming discovers penicillin
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john hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker
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jonas salk develops the first polio vaccine
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in 2006, doctors began to induce potential stem cells and also cloned human stem cells
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this approach to treatment where drugs are combined in different ways or different sequences has become a model for treating other diseases ranging from lung cancer to heart disease.
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there are now medicines to treat narrowed arteries in the heart that weren't available 25 years ago. there is also a bigger focus on fitness today than in past generations
