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In 65 A.D., Dioscorides, a Greek, wrote his Materia Medica (13.152.6). This was a practical text dealing with the medicinal use of more than 600 plants.
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The medical school at Montpellier traces its roots back to the tenth century, though the university was not founded until 1289. Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier (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.
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1628 William Harvey published his theory that the heart is a muscle, which acts as a pump to circulate the blood around the body, this discovery lead to the conclusion that there are specific body systems that works together
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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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an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars
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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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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German physicist, discovered X-rays by producing and detecting electromagnetic radiation in this wavelength range.
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Chemists working in the German company Bayer AG produced the first Aspirin. It was a synthetic version of salicin, which they derived from the plant species Filipendula ulmaria (meadowsweet). Within 2 years, it became a global commercial success.
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Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian biologist and physician, identified the different blood types and classified them into blood groups.
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Medical scientists Sir Frederick Banting, a Canadian, and Charles Herbert Best, an American-Canadian, discovered insulin.
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A group of Americans developed the technique of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). They tested it successfully on a dog first, and the technique saved a child's life shortly afterward.
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James Alexander Thomson, an American developmental biologist, derived the first human embryonic stem cell line. He later found a way to create stem cells from human skin cells.
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Dr. Kenneth Matsumura created the first bio-artificial liver. This could lead to scientists creating artificial livers for transplantation or other techniques that enable a damaged liver to renew itself.
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Anti-smoking campaigns (at least in the U.S.), including banning of smoking in workplaces and public places, [have] enormous impact across socioeconomic classes on many diseases," said Humphreys, who added that smoking increases the risk for strokes and many cancers.
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The drop in death rates from HIV in the developed world (is) due to improved medications," Coates said. "There was the 10 percent drop in deaths due to HIV in the US between 2006 and 2007.
