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Many writings on exam & treatment of patients. Strict code to maintain patient privacy and to never harm patients and is responsible for the Hippocratic oath.He became known as the father of medicine.
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Aristotle identified the heart as the most important organ of the body. He argued that the expansion and contraction of the heart was a function of its role as an intelligent organ.
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Asclepius - Greek god of healing. Priest healers adopted the rod of Asclepius as their symbol. Modern adaptation is still a healthcare symbol.
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Physician to the gladiators. Doctrine to 4 bodily humors blood, phlegm, yellow & black bile. Documented spinal cord for movement of limbs. Performed tracheotomy to cure breathing difficulties.
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Studied the nervous system and created a book about it.
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Bubonic plague killed 10,000 people a day. Also called Black Death. A rare but serious bacterial infection that's transmitted by fleas.
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Chinese physician describes symptoms of diabetes mellitus including thirst and sweet urine. He was able to tell if it was sweet by tasting it or smelling it.
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Documented the difference between smallpox and measles. Compiled by Persian philosopher Avicenna, also made the book of healing
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Created the book of healing. Avicenna has been called the Father of Modern Medicine. Also created the canon of Medicine.
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University of Bologna – School of Medicine and surgery: The charter for this university comes from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, but historians have traced its origins back to 1088.
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Created the printing press.
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His anatomical studies began in 1506 with his dissection of a 100-year-old man called it vitruvian man.
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Created De Humani Corporis Fabrica. First accurate work on anatomy. Founder of modern human anatomy.
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Know for his work on the development and improvement of the microscope. Also for his subsequent contribution towards the study of microbiology.
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James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
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Develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease
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Creater of the stethoscope while working at the Hôpital Necker, and pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions
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James blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
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Insisted on clean instruments and hands between patients used carbolic acid. Also created the mouthwash listerine.
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Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic
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He produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays.
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He introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups. Blood transfusions became safer.
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The discovery of the vitamins was a major scientific achievement in our understanding of health and disease. In 1912, Casimir Funk originally coined the term "vitamine
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He concluded that the slow, gradual narrowing of the coronary arteries could be a cause of angina. He's also credited with inventing the term “heart attack.”
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Invents the first band aid.
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discovered the hormone insulin in pancreatic extracts of dogs. On July 30, 1921, they injected the hormone into a diabetic dog and found that it effectively lowered the dog's blood glucose levels to normal.
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A HeLa cell splitting into two new cells. Also created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research.
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Creator of steroids. He began work on synthesizing progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone from the plant sterols stigmasterol and sitosterol,
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Wilson greatbatch, an electrical engineer who helped develop the first implantable pacemaker, a revolutionary device that since the 1960s has pumped life into millions of people. Cardiac pacemaker.
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Creator of artificial heart. which required tubes leading from the patient to a small refrigerator-size compressor when it was implanted in Dr. Barney Clark at the University of Utah in December 1982
