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Christian theologian-physician who translated thirty-two of Galen's works into Syriac and wrote medical treatises of his own
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He wrote 30 books on medicine, the "Pandects". He was the first author in antiquity who mentioned the diseases of smallpox and measles
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Hospital founded, School of Salerno would grow around it.
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Discovered difference between smallpox and measles.
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suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation
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Publishes De Fabrica Corporis Humani which corrects Greek medical errors and revolutionizes European medicine
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Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable seedlike entities.
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Describes the circulation of blood through the lungs. He is accused of heresy and burned at the stake
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Considered the father of surgery in Germany, he was one of the most important surgeons of this period. His main contribution is the
that the amputation should be performed at the level of healthy tissues and not by the gangrenous zone. -
founds tropical medicine with his treatise on Indian diseases and treatments
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He was the first to describe the femoral neck fracture and epiphyseal detachments in children
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was invented, which played a huge part in medical advancement
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studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heat
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He described the fractured ankle that bears his name
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Publishes his book medical and surgical gymnastic or the different exercises of the body and rest in the cure of diseases
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The theoretical basis of cellular pathology is very simple: cells constitute the smallest units of the organism with all the characteristic properties of life
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discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
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Louis Pasteur (microbiology) pasteurization of milk
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identifies the first case of what becomes known as Alzheimer's disease
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suggests the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets
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performs the first laparoscopy on humans
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First vaccine for tetanus
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performs the first human pancreas transplant
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Of Doctors without Borders alerted the World Health Organization to the threat of the SARS virus, triggering the most effective response to an epidemic in history. Urbani succumbs to the disease himself in less than a month.
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First HPV vaccine approved.
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Performs the first full face transplant.
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The first ever artificial pancreas was created
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Three medications are chemically related antiviral medications, known as neuraminidase inhibitors, that inhibit the viral neuraminidase enzyme and act against influenza A and B viruses.
