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Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and small pox.
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Avicenna from Persia wrote, The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
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First documented hospital in England.
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Invented spectacles for treating long sightedness.
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Louis XI established a retreat for the blind that became a hospital for eye disease and is now one of the most important medical centers in Paris.
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Concave lenses spectacles to treat near- sightedness.
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English medical doctor physicist.
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Invents the microscope,
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch scientist who discovered blood cells.
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Discovered a vaccine for smallpox.
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Sets out fees for surgeons and punishments for malpractice.
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Preform the first successful transfusion of human blood.
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Discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
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Discovered X-rays.
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America's first cardiologist.
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Discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets.
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preforms the first kidney transplant between identical twins.
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Implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days.
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Approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technoloogie...
