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He was the first physician known to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis.
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Veins were distinguished from arteries.
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Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox
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Avicenna wrote the book of healing and the canon of medicine
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The medical school Montpellier was discovered
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Surgical procedures improved and survival from even simple procedures increased.
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The use of scientific method was discovered.
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Allowed for the study of microscopic organisms
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Antonie Van Leewenhoek describes bacteria.
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover Plague Flees.
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Edward Jenner discovered the first vaccination.
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Bubonic Plague hit San Francisco
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Cholera left India
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Joseph Lister practice of medical asepsis.
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Doctors made a connection between disease and unsanitary conditions.
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discoveries of x-rays, organ transplants, and cat scans.
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Medical practices were available, mostly through missionaries.
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicilin.
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First HMO insurance
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Jonas Salk discovers polio vaccine.
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots to treat infectious wounds.
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Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved my the FDA
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Anti smoking laws
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Jean-Michel Dubernard created face transplants.
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Doctors began to induce potential stem cells and cloned human cells.
