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500 BCE
Alcmaeon of Croton
Alcmaeon of Croton Distinguished veins from arteries -
460 BCE
Hippocrates
Hippocrates was the Greek father of medicine begins the study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin.One of his biggest achievements was making the Hippotic Oath. -
300 BCE
Diocles
Diocles Was the person who wrote the first known autonomy book -
280 BCE
Herophilus
Hemophilus Studied the nervous system and how it works -
130
Birth of Galen
Galen was the Greek physician to the gladiator and Roman emperors.He was one of the main physicians to really study,as he dissected many times on African Monkeys, Pigs, Sheep,and Goats -
643
Chen chuan
Chen Chuan Described symptoms of diabetes mellitus -
925
Rhazes
Built upon ideas of Hippocrates and was a renowned physician who was born in a ancient city called Rayy near Tehran. -
1249
Roger bacon
Roger bacon was the Man who invented spectacles to help people with abnormal eye problems to see -
1270
Mondino de Luzzi
Wrote the book "Lesson in Anatomy" which is known as first modern anatomy book -
1489
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci starts directing corpses to gain knowledge to the human body -
Zacharius Iansen
Zacharius Iansen was Dutch spectacle maker who invented the first optical telescope and is sometimes credited for inventing the microscope. -
William Harvey
Wrote an anatomical study of The Motion of The Heart and of The Blood in Animals which forms the foundation in the study of the arteries,heart, and blood vessels -
Arto Van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered blood cells and observed bacteria and is cited as the first microbiologist to study muscle fibers, bacteria,spermatozoa, and blood flow in the capillaries -
Giacoma Pylarni
Gave the first smallpox inoculations -
James Lind
Finds a way to prevent scurvy through citrus -
Rene Laennac
Invents the stethoscope which is used to hear heart beats at a loud sound making sure there is nothing abnormal -
James Blundell
Performs the very first blood transfusion -
Elizabeth Blackwell
First woman to receive a medical degree which she received happily at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and was the very first woman to be on the UK Medical Register -
Felix Hoffman
Man who developed Aspirin which is used to reduce fevers and colds -
Edward Mellanby
Discovers lack of vitamin D in the diet can cause rickets -
Insulin
Insulin first used to treat diabetes -
(Flu)Influenza
A vaccine is invented to counter influenza which is a deadly virus if not treated with any vaccine or treatment -
John Hopps
John hopps invents the first Cardiac pacemaker. A Cardiac pacemaker is a device placed in the chest which controls abnormal heart beats. It uses electrical impulses to prompt the heart beat at a normal rate.Pace makers are used to treat arrhythmia. -
Hela Cells
Helped in the making of a polio virus land they are used today to give us a more depth of cancer -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk invents the first successful polio vaccine and was an American medical researcher and virologist -
CT-scans
Godfrey Hounsfield and South African psychiatrist Allan Cormack of Tufts university invented CT scans -
First test tube baby
First test tube baby is born which gives hope to many women who wanted a child. -
Smallpox is eradicated
Smallpox was a global threat making every 3 out of 10 cases an instant death, so the World Health organization eradicated the disease in a program making the last known case of smallpox in 1977 -
Hepatitis B vaccine
The first vaccine for Hepatitis B is made in 1981.Hepatitis B is a serious infection contracted from sex. -
Dolly the sheep
The very first artificial clone of an animal using the process of nuclear fusion and is the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell
