Impact of the Scientific Revolution on Medicine

  • Jan 1, 1543

    The Skeletons of a Human Being

    The Skeletons of a Human Being
    Hisotry of Medicine
    A man named Vesalius publishes his great work - De humani corporis fabrica which means The Structure of the Human Body to help those willing to look with clear eyes, the plates in Vesalius's volumes are a revelation. Human beings can peer beneath their own skins.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1543 to

    The Scientific Revolution

  • Vaccination for Cowpox

    Vaccination for Cowpox
    History of Medicine
    Edward Jenner created a conventional smallpox inoculation which he gave to a young boy named Jame Phipps. Phipps exprienced a mild attack of smallpox, survived it then became immune to it.
  • Diagnostic Purposes

    Diagnostic Purposes
    History of Medicine
    Rene Laennec constructed a tube that hears the heart with much more clarity than actually putting his ear to the chest. These diagnostics are able to identify and describe the characteristic sounds of various stages of bronchitis, pneumonia,etc.
  • Smallpox Gone for Good!

    Smallpox Gone for Good!
    History of Medicine
    Jenner definately acheived success. Smallpox is the first disease with which that aim was eventually achieved. After intensive international vaccination programmes, there is by 1980 no case of smallpox on the planet.
  • Cure for Cancer

    Cure for Cancer
    History of Medicine
    By 2030, cancer will be seen as almost non-existent. People who have cancer will automatically be relieved of the disease. And there will be a vaccination for those who do not have a cancer, cannot ever develop the disease.