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Sep 30, 1543
Early stages of medicine
1543: Andreas Vesalius Publishes On the Fabric of the Human Body This is considered to be the first great modern work of science and the foundation of modern biology. -
Period: Sep 30, 1543 to
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
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First experienments
1628 -- A classic work in the history of physiology and medicine is published by William Harvey (1578-1657), his Anatomical Exercises on the Movement of the Heart and Blood, or De motu cordis. Here Harvey employed brilliant experiments and new quantitative arguments to show that the blood circulates. -
Development of Medicine
Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus. . The process becomes known as vaccination from the Latin vacca for cow. Vaccination with cowpox is made compulsory in Britain in 1853. Jenner is sometimes called the founding father of immunology. -
Germ Theory
Louis Pasteur and Robert Kochdiscover the "germ theory". Before this discovery, most doctors believe diseases are caused by spontaneous generation. In fact, doctors would perform autopsies on people who died of infectious diseases and then care for living patients without washing their hands, not realizing that they were therefore transmitting the disease. -
Dicovery of X rays
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays. -
Development of Asprin
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid). Hoffman synthesizes acetyl salicylic acid, developing what is now the most widely used medicine in the world. -
FUTURE : Human Cells
In 2031 the scientic revolution will have evolved and there will be new scientif methods and medicine , i predict that human cells will be used in such way that there will be ways of curing such diseases as CANCER.