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300
300 BC
Diocles wrote the first known anatomy book -
460
460 BC
Birth of Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin -
Jan 1, 1489
Disection
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses -
Nov 1, 1543
First Anatomy Book
Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani -
Heart and Blood
William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart -
First Inoculation
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations -
First Successful Surgery
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy -
First Vaccination
Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease -
First Woman Doctor
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York -
Discovery of Germs
Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease -
Invention of XRays
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays -
Aspirin
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin -
First Physician
Birth of Galen. Greek physician to gladiators and Roman emperors