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One of the most important contributions to medicine from medieval China was to creation of amalgams for dental procedures. A text from the year 659 details the first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin. The process was not used in Europe until the 16th century.
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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754. As one medieval Arabic physician said these were places for “the art of knowing the materia medica simples in their various species, types and shapes. From these, the pharmacist prepares compounded medications as prescribed and ordered by the prescribing physician.”
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Ancient medical writers believed that during surgery some pus should remain in the wounds, thinking that this would aid in its healing. This idea remained widespread until the 13th-century surgeon Theodoric
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Many historians have believed that knowledge about anatomy stagnated in the Middle Ages. However, there is a great deal of evidence that medieval physicians were conducting experiments and examining the anatomy of the human body.
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Galen was the most influential ancient physician during the Middle Ages. He held undisputed authority over medicine in the Middle Ages.
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The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague or the Plague, or less commonly the Black Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351
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He was born in Italy and lived from 1452 to 1519. He was skilled in many fields. He was an expert in anatomy. He dissected human corpses to study tendons, bones, and muscles. He was permitted to study human corpses in some hospitals by dissecting them. He was able to create an over 100 pages book that had notes and illustrations about the anatomy of the human body.
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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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It changed the way people look at things and how then they discovered new things
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Discovers blood cells
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Invents the stethoscope.
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Performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
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Is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
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They both developed the syringe
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Developed the use of antiseptic surgical methods and publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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He introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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H einvented the first band-aid
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He discovers pencilin
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He invented the first cardiac peacmaker
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The virus that causes AIDS, is identified
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First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three years later.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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Mind-reading has moved from carnival attraction to the halls of medicine with what is known as a functional MRI.
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In March, DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
