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Rhazes descovered difference between chicken pocks and mescals
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500 BC Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
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1200 Jul 1, Sunglasses were invented in China.
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1249 Roger Bacon invents spectacles
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1270 Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur establish the germ theory of disease
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460 BC Birth of Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin
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(1493-1541)Paracelsus, discovered that drinking mercury was a cure for the deadly diseases, syphilis;
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Leonardo Da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) dissected human bodies and made detailed drawings of everything,
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1527 cured a patient of a leg infection, without amputation, the most common practice, and this further enhanced his reputation.
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1600The Egyptian Imhotep describes the diagnosis and treatment of 200 diseases
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1626, William Harvey made a huge breakthrough by studying dying dogs, showing that the heart pumped blood around the body and that the heart had two distinct beating halves
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changed medical practice and finally sounded the death knell for the harmful practice of bloodletting by barber-surgeon
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1700s the anecdotal began to gave way to the tried and tested
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man with dropsy had recovered after drinking a herbal medicine that had been brewed from foxglove, he had to know exactly how the plant had worked. He spent 10 years researching effects of foxglove and the correct dosage of digitalis needed to strengthen the contractions of the heart muscle. Withering published the results of his clinical trials in 1785
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The Introduction of machinery into the textiles industry had an immediate impact on the livlihoo of workers. No longer were they skilled and highly sought after experts in field, now a machine could perform the task in their stead.
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-18th century the average life expectancy was 36
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Between 1830 and 1836 there were 4 major outbreaks of this disease
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In late 2007 the surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic began removing kidneys through a single incision in the patient's navel. Using tiny metal hands carefully manipulating sutures deep inside a patients body seems like something pulled from science fiction, but that robotic surgery is occurring daily in a growing number of centers across the country.
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50.7 million residents (which includes 9.9 million non-citizens) or 16.7% of the population were uninsured in 2009. With each new discovery, the possibility of saving citizens million of dollars in treatment
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2009, European researchers genetically manipulated bone marrow cells taken from two 7-year-old boys and then transplanted the altered cells back into the boys and apparently arrested the progress of a fatal brain disease.
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HIV/AIDS kills around 1.8 million people a year, and ranks as the third leading cause of death in low-income countries. But a recent study in journal Blood presents a potentially new way to combat the disease: instead of killing the virus, make the body resistant to it
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as ALS or Lou Gherig’s disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims
