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The first people that we know of to keep accurate health records.
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When people had pain or congestion, they used acupuncture to relieve it.
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The Romans were the first to learn the importance of cleanliness which led them to create health and sanitation systems.
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Known as ''The Father of Medicine''.
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The breakout of the bubonic plague which killed 75% of the population.
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Used dissection while drawing a portrait of the human body.
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He was the first to find out how circulation of blood and from the heart was.
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Inventor of the mercury thermometer.
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Created a medicine that would get rid of smallpox.
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The first to describe Paralysis Agitans
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Founded modern nursing.
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When performing surgery, he would use disinfectants and antiseptics to clean the patient.
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Diagnosed the disease that bears his name.
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Patterns of heredity
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Found out how to kill bacteria by pasteurizing milk.
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At age 63, she founded the American Red Cross.
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He developed a way to identify pathogens by using the culture plate method.
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The first person to discover what X rays were.
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The first Arab physician to use an animal gut for suture material.
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Found out how to isolate radium in 1910.
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The first to ever discover penicillin.
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Pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large scale blood bank in the U.S.
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Inventor of the polio vaccine
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Won nobel prize-winning biophysical and researcher credited with discovering the double helix structure of DNA.
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Identified 250 stages of a ceruical cells progression from normal to cancerous.