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He purposed and developed methods for diagnosis and treatment of kidney calculi for the first time in medical history.
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Hippocrates bases medicine on objective observation and deductive reasoning, although he does accept the commonly held belief that disease results from an imbalance of the four bodily humors.
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Galen resides primarily in Rome where he is physician to the gladiators and personal physician to several emperors. He publishes some 500 treatises and is still respected for his contributions to anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology.
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By the fourth century the concept of a hospital – a place where patients could be treated by doctors with access to specialized equipment – was emerging in parts of the Roman Empire
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Christian and Muslims religious instructions were based off of the Qur'an. Which taught followers social responsibilities like rich providing the poor, and the healthy providing for weak or sick. This led to the founding of Islamic Hospitalization.
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If you recovered from small pox you were thought to be immune to it. Jenner decided to use pus from Cowpox blisters on the small pox. People didn't believe such could work but it did.
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He is best-known for “Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus” (1530; “Syphilis or the French Disease”), a work in rhyme giving an account of the disease, which he named.
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Black Death which was a VERY deadly disease had came back to "life" around the time of the Renaissance time period. The island of Hispaniola had a population of 600,000 and it dropped to nearly 600.
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Andreas Vesalius was a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek refines the microscope and fashions nearly 500 models. Discovers blood cells and observes animal and plant tissues and microorganisms
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English architect Sir Christopher Wren is the first to administer medications intravenously by means of an animal bladder attached to a sharpened quill
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William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals, describing how blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart
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Colera was also a very deadly disease, compared to black death. It caused very many deaths in short amounts of time. Then Louis Pasteures germ theory of the Colera germ would change this for many many years.
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays
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Willows tree bark was used to take pain away for long periods of time. After awhile 2 men got together and used skill and knowledge to make the pain reliever "Aspirin".
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Austrian-American Karl Landsteiner describes blood compatibility and rejection developing the ABO system of blood typing.
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First successful human blood transfusion using Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique
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First vaccine for tuberculosis. Which is is a disease caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB mainly infects the lungs, although it can also affect other organs.
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This Project was mainly about connecting genes to people and how they are formed. From data collected its hoped that new treatments for disease will be developed
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The Gamow Bag is a portable hyperbaric chamber used for the treatment of acute mountain sickness (AMS). By increasing air pressure around the patient, the Gamow Bag simulates descent of as much as 7,000 feet, thus relieving AMS symptoms.
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First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three years later.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California.
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In March, DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
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A purified inactivated vaccine for Zika is currently under development by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. This vaccine is based on the same technology used to develop a vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis Virus.
