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Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox.
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Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
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Ammar ibn `Ali al-Mawsili performed the first successful eye surgery. Using a needle and removing a cataract.
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Roger Bacon invents spectacles.
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Louis IX established Les Quinze-vingt; originally a retreat for the blind, it became a hospital for eye diseases, and is now one of the most important medical centers in Paris.
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Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses.
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Ambroise Pare mixes egg whites, rose oil and turpentine to put on wounds.
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William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells.
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Benjamin Waterhouse introduces the smallpox vaccine to the United States
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
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Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever.
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John Collins Warren provides the first public demonstration of anesthesia in surgery.
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Reginald Heber Fitz provides the first clinical description of appendicitis.
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Paul Dudley White introduces the electrocardiograph to the United States.
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Elliott Joslin introduces insulin to the United States.
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Eliot Cutler performs the world’s first successful heart valve surgery.
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Marius Smith-Petersen devises a three-flanged nail to secure the bone in hip fractures.
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Drinker Respirator saves a polio patient at Peter Bent Brigham in collaboration with Children's Hospital Medical Center
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Jean-Michel Dubernard performs the first partial face transplant.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer.
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First HPV vaccine approved.
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First leg transplant takes place.
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Brigham and Women’s scientists discover a striking subset of T cells that collaborate with other immune cells.
