Medical Practices

Medicine First Mentioned

2600 BCE

Imhotep is the first doctor/physician that is mentioned in history.

Disecting Corpse

1489

Leonardo De Vinci dissected corpses to learn how the body was constructed and where emotions came from.

First Anatomy Book

1543

Andreas Vesalius published "The Fabric of the Human Body."

Discovery of Blood Cells

1670

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was able to utilize a microscope to give a precise shape and size of a blood cell.

First Successful Vaccine

1796

Edward Jenner figured out that cowpox protected against smallpox. Jenner used "dead" cowpox to create the first successful vaccine aginst smallpox.

First Successful Human Blood Transfusion

1818

James Blundell was an obstetrician who did the first successful human blood transfusion on a patient suffering from a hemorrhage.

First Women to get M.D.

1849

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman who was able to obtain a medical degree from an American school.

Clause of Diseases: Germs

1857

Louis Pasteur identified germs as the reason for diseases and infections.

Antiseptics During Surgery

1867

Joseph Lister developed various antiseptic surgical methods and published "Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery."

Discovery of X-rays

Dec 28, 1895

Within 57 days, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen studied radiation that could go through a thick screen and was able to discover X-rays.

Intorduction to Blood Groups

1901

Karl Landsteiner introduced 4 different blood groups: A, B, AB, and O.

DNA Molecule Structure

1953

James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the DNA molecule is in the form of a three-dimensional double helix.