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Period: Sep 30, 1543 to
Scientific Revolution
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Harvey and the circulation of the blood
A book is published in 1628by William Harvey which provides one of the greatest breakthroughs in the understanding of the human body
Its title is Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus ('The Anatomical Function of the Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Animals').In this book he demonstrates that Blood does not drift in the body in any sort of random ebb and flow. Instead it is pumped endlessly round a very precise circuit. -
Jenner and vaccination: 1796-1798
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, .Cowpox is a relatively rare disease, it is not until 1796 that Jenner has an opportunity to test this theory of immunity. In that year a dairymaid develops the symptoms. Jenner takes material from an eruption on her hand and inoculates an 8-year-old boy, James Phipps, with the substance and soon recovers. -
René Laënnec- stethoscope
René Laënnec, reluctant to press his ear to the chest of a young female patient, finds a solution in the stethoscope. He invented the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker and pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions. -
James Young Simpson first to deliever baby
James Young Simpson is the first to deliver a baby (christened Anaesthesia) using chloroform. Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for general medical use. -
First man to find a cure to cancer
James Heisenburg is the first scientist to find a cure for cancer. this discover has came a long way and will cure so mant patients suffering from the deadly illness
