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420 BCE
Hippocratic oath was created
It is one of the oldest binding documents in history -
1285
First eyeglasses were created
older eyeglasses were similar to today's magnifying glasses -
Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
The stethoscope is made up of two greek words, stethos(chest) and scopos(examination) -
Elizabeth Blackwell gets a medical degree
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree -
First painless surgery with general anesthetic
Surgeries before that were a last result because of the tremendous amounts of pain it inflicted -
The first rubber condoms were produced
The sme person who made goodwell tires made the condom -
The first practical medical thermometer used to take the temperature of a patient
It was made by Sir Thomas Allbutt -
Wilhelm Conrad discovered the medical use of X-rays in medical imaging
X-rays were discovered by accident -
Aspirin invented in Germany
Aspirin was the first drug to be commonly used -
Willem Einthoven discovers electrocardio therapy
Electrocardio therapy is a graph of voltage versus time -
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
Penicillin is a mold that kills bacteria -
First commercial ultrasound
the first ultrasound was for clinical purposes -
Invention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Cpr was created in seattle -
Christiaan Barnard creates the first human heart transplant
It was performed in cape town, south africa -
The first full face transplant
It was performed by Laurent Lantieri