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The first stethoscope was invented by using a long, rolled paper tube to funnel the sound from a patients chest to the doctors ear.
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Derived from China; Creation of Amalgams for dental procedures. Tooth fillings were made of silver and tin.
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Pharmacists prepared compound medications as prescribed and ordered by the prescribing physician. Pharmacies greatly aided the development of knowledge about drugs and how they could be made.
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Leech therapy was used for bloodletting, a practice used to cure fevers, headaches, and serious illnesses. Today, leeches are used to stimulate blood circulation after graphs and reconstruction surgery.
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Due to religion, it was the Islamic belief to treat the ill regardless of their background or ability to pay. This led to the rise of hospitals.
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Advanced urine analysis and studied function and diseases of the kidneys. Recommendations for how to prevent Calculi are still in use today.
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The disease was carried and distributed by rats. Led to the death of 75-200 million individuals.
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Jean Fernell was a French Physician who introduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function. Fernell was the first to discover the spinal cord.
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Researched the structure of the nervous system, and developed the idea of a canal that runs through the entire spinal cord.
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Vesalius wrote on of the most influential books regarding human anatomy. He closely observed the construction of the human body.
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Carried and transferred by insects. This caused severe diseases such as yellow fever, dengue, tick-borne encephalitis , etc.
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Edwards Jenner created a vaccine for smallpox. Cowpox blisters protected people from smallpox.
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Typhoid fever was a predominant disease that killed many. It was caused by salmonella and it spread through food and water contaminated with feces.
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A surgeon who introduced the new idea of cleanliness which led to antiseptic surgery.
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Discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. This doctor worked with a cathode-ray tube in his laboratory. He then observed a glow of crystals on a table and concluded that a ray was being emitted by the tube.
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The Iron Lung was many times used to treat patients with polio who were unable to breathe after the virus paralyzed muscle groups in the chest.
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Polio was a highly infectious disease caused by polio-virus. The disease could cause paralysis or result in death. It enters the environment in the feces of someone who is infected.
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Called the "artificial" kidney, Dr. Willem Kolff had the idea of developing a machine to clean blood after watching a patient suffer from kidney failure.
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American Medical Researcher and virologist who discovered one of the first successful polio vaccines. He determined that there were three distinct types of polio viruses.
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The first successful transplant operation. A kidney was removed from one donor and implanted into the body of his identical twin.
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Developed the use of sterile maggots in order to treat wounds that could potentially become infectious.
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Ossur Corporation created a microprocessor controlled knee that adapts to Terrain and permits many more physical activities that could once not be done.
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3D printed body parts enabled researchers to print body parts by using bio-printing. This technological advancement, for example, allows cells to be copied.
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Ebola is a rare and deadly disease in people and non-human primates. Ebola is spread through direct contact. The side effects include: severe bleeding, organ failure, and can lead to death.
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Gene therapy made a major breakthrough in 2017. It is the process of modifying someones DNA to treat disease, rather than treating the symptoms like most drugs on the market.
