Medical Science

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1214 to Jan 1, 1294

    Rager Bacon

    Hewas an English philosopher. He invented the spectacles.
  • Rager Bacon invents spectacles
    Jan 1, 1249

    Rager Bacon invents spectacles

  • Period: Jan 1, 1580 to

    Zacharius Jannssen

    He was a Dutch spectacle-maker credited with the invention of the first optical telescope.
  • Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

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    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    He was the first microbioligist and he was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms
  • Anton Van Leeuwehoek discoveres blood cells

    Anton Van Leeuwehoek discoveres blood cells

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

  • James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy

    James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy

  • Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectom

  • Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox which was the first vaccine

  • Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

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    Elizabeth Blackwell

    She was the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
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    Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist who was one of the most important founders of medical microbiology. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases
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    Robert Koch

    Robert Koch was a German physician. He won the Nobel prize in medicine.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York

  • Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe

    Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe

  • Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

    Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

  • Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur establish the germ theory of disease

  • First vaccine developed for cholera

  • First vaccine developed for anthrax by Louis Pasteur

  • First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur

  • First contact lenses developed

    First contact lenses developed

  • Emil von Behring discovers antioxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines

  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays

  • First vaccine developed for typhoid fever

  • Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

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    Dr. Joseph E Murray

    Joseph Edward Murray performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954.
  • Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid

    Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid

  • Insulin first used to treat diabetes

  • First vaccine developed for whooping cough

  • First vaccine developed for tetanus

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • First vaccine developed for yellow fever

  • First vaccine developed for influenza

  • John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker

  • Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant

  • First vaccine developed for measles.

  • Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant

  • First vaccine developed for chicken pox

  • Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans

    Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans

  • First vaccine developed for pneumonia.

  • First test-tube baby is born

  • First vaccine developed for meningitis.

  • Smallpox is eradicated

  • First vaccine developed for hepatitis B

  • HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

  • Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method

  • Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer