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Bian Que becomes the earliest physician known to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis.
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Alcmaeon of Croton scientific anatomic dissections. He studied the optic nerves and the brain, arguing that the brain was the seat of the senses and intelligence. He distinguished veins from the arteries and had at least vague understanding of the circulation of the blood.
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The first pharmacy was established in Baghda.
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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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Congregation of the Antonines, was founded to treat victims of "St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease.
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Barbers eventually evolve into two groups: surgeons who were educated and trained to perform complex surgical operations; and lay barbers, or barber-surgeons, who performed more routine hygienic services including shaving, bleeding and tooth extraction.
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A series of royal decrees in France prohibit lay barbers from practicing all surgical procedures except bleeding, cupping, leeching, and extracting teeth
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Paré was a French surgeon, anatomist and an inventor of surgical instruments. He was a military surgeon during the French campaigns in Italy
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In France Ambrose Pare, known as the Father of Surgery, publishes his Complete Works. This includes practical information about dentistry such as tooth extraction and the treatment of tooth decay and jaw fractures.
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William Harvey was an English medical doctor-physicist, known for his contributions in heart and blood movement.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cell.
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Isaac Greenwood practices as the first native-born American dentist
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John Baker, the earliest medically-trained dentist to practice in America, immigrates from England and sets up practice.
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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a disease of affest quickly to people who live in dirty or damp homes.
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Cholera was a feared disease, it spreaded fast when the people drinked the river water
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The first female dental assistant is employed by C. Edmond Kells, a prominent New Orleans dentist. Her duties include chair-side assistance, instrument cleaning, inventory, appointments, bookkeeping, and reception.
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Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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First vaccine developed for whooping cough
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The first fluoride toothpastes are marketed.
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Lasers are developed and approved for soft tissue work, such as treatment of periodontal disease.
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The first commercial electric toothbrush, developed in Switzerland after World War II, is introduced in the United States. A cordless, rechargeable model follows in 1961.
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
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Advanced cell technology announced it cloned a human embryo but the embryo did not survive.
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Approved federal funding in search for using exiting lines of embryonic did not survive.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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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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The success of an first-time experimental surgery will determine future availability for U.S. cancer patients and veterans with injuries to the pelvic region.
