Impact of the Scientific on Medicine

Micheal Serevetus rediscovered the pulmonary circulation

Sep 30, 1546

Independently from Ibn al-Nafis, Michael Servetus rediscovered the pulmonary circulation, but this discovery did not reach the public because it was written down for the first time in the "Manuscript of Paris"[43] in 1546

"Manuscript of Paris" was published

Sep 30, 1553

"Manuscript of Paris" was published in the theological work for which he paid with his life in 1553

Bacteria and microorganisms were first observed with microscope

Sep 30, 1676

Bacteria and microorganisms were first observed with a microscope by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676,

Herman Boerhaave is referred to "father of physiology"

Sep 30, 1708

Herman Boerhaave is sometimes referred to as a "father of physiology" due to his exemplary teaching in Leiden and textbook 'Institutiones medicae' (1708).

Robert Koch's discoveries of the transmission of disease

Sep 30, 1880

Robert Koch's discoveries around 1880 of the transmission of disease by bacteria,

Discovery of antibiotics

Sep 30, 1900

The discovery of antibiotics around 1900

The first antibiotic was discovererd by Paul Ehrlich

Sep 30, 1908

The first antibiotic was arsphenamine / Salvarsan discovered by Paul Ehrlich in 1908

Spinal cord repare

Sep 30, 2030