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One of the main ways of dealing with disease in the Middle Ages was by prayer. Traditional methods of treating disease such as blood-letting, purging with laxatives, changing the diet of the patient, herbal remedies etc., were completely ineffective against the disease.
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Mondino de Luzzi started to do dissections in public, also known as surgery.
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The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine was written my Avicenna.
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Theodoric Borgognoni would use wine as a disinfectant and he would soak bandages in it to clean wounds.
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Roger Bacon invents spectacles.
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Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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The C-section was discovered/used in the renaissance time period.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria.
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Laughing gas was discovered.
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William Harvey published his new theory that the heart pumps blood throughout the body.
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Kill or Cure was invented which was a thing were they would inject you with a small form of smallpox.
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René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
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British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
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First vaccine for cholera
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X-rays were discovered by the German Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen.
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First vaccine for diphtheria.
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First vaccine for yellow fever.
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Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccination.
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell
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Dr. William DeVries implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days.
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Carlo Urbani, of Doctors without Borders alerted the World Health Organization to the threat of the SARS virus, triggering the most effective response to an epidemic in history. Urbani succumbs to the disease himself in less than a month.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant.
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Researchers from Cornell University printed an outer ear that worked like and resembled the real thing. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT have also reproduced blood vessels using similar processes.
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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.
