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The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years.
Medicine practice only in moasteries and convents. Herbal medicines were used and there were many plagues and epidemics including the Bubonic plague, smallpox, diptheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. -
This brought forth the rebirth of science, medical schoools were built, the printing press made books possible and knowledge was shared and the study of the body by dissection was accepted.
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William Harvey described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit crreated the first mercury thermometer.
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Benjamin Franklin, along with all of his other accomplishments, created the bifocals.
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The United States received its independence from Great Britain in 1776.
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Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine for smallpox in 1976.
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope. Using this insturment enables you to listen to the sounds of the heart and lungs.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.
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Florence Nightingale's first school of nursing during the Crimean War opened in 1860.
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The Civil War between the North and South over a dispute of slavery and westward expansion.
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Louis Pasteur discovered that the Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevent the growth of bacteria.
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Sigmund Freud studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body. He determined that the mind and body work together. His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiarty.
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Clara Barton and a circle of friends founded the Red Cross Foundation in Washington in 1881.
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William Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895.
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Marie Curie isolated Radium in 1910.
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The Central Powers vs. The Allied Powers. It was known as the Great War. More than 9 million soldiers killed and 21 million injured. Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919.
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, on accident that is, through an experiment.
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Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Among the estimated 45-60 million people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler's diabolical "Final Solution," now known as the Holocaust.
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In 1952, Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine.
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Albert Sabin created the oral polio vaccine which was more effective than Salk's vaccine.
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Cristiaan Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.
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Louis Brown was the world's first test tube baby and she made world-wide news. Front page!
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Tissue cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original. Dolly the Sheep was cloned.
