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  • 2600 BCE

    Babylonia Medicine

    Babylonia Medicine
    [http://www.ancienttimes.net/cgi/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=2&topic=8]
    Medical texts on clay tablets record the first symptoms of illness, the prescription or medicine and directions for making up medicine, then an invocation to the gods.
  • 600 BCE

    India's Medicine

    India's Medicine
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine]
    The use of herbs to treat ailments would later form a large part of Ayurved or Atharvaveda which was used for giving prescriptions and was the first to help with ailments.
  • 215

    China Medicine

    China Medicine
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine]
    Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on the use of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage and other forms of therapy which is still practiced today.
  • May 5, 1493

    Paracelsus Medicine

    Paracelsus Medicine
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine]
    They used macrocosm or nature, heavy doses of mysticism,they believed miracles under Church auspices and looked for cures in nature, and used herbals and chemicals.

  • European Advancements In Medicine by John Hunter

    European Advancements In Medicine by John Hunter
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_surgery]
    John Hunter brought an empirical and experimental approach to the science and was renowned around Europe for the quality of his research and his written works. He built up a collection of over 13,000 specimens of separate organ systems from the simplest plants and animals to humans which helped with advancements in surgery.

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_surgery]
    Modern pain control through anesthesia was discovered in the mid-19th century. Before anesthesia surgery was a horrifically painful procedure and surgeons were encouraged to be as swift as possible to minimize patient suffering.

  • Discovery of X-Rays

    Discovery of X-Rays
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_surgery]
    German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the x-ray. He noticed that these rays could penetrate the skin, allowing the skeletal structure to be captured on a specially treated photographic plate.

  • Removal of the Pituitary Tumor.

    Removal of the Pituitary Tumor.
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_surgery]
    Austrian surgeon Hermann Schloffer became the first to successfully remove a pituitary tumor.

  • Skull and Scalp Transplant

    Skull and Scalp Transplant
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_surgery]
    The first skull and scalp transplant by surgeons at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas.

  • The First HIV-to-HIV Liver

    The First HIV-to-HIV Liver
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_surgery]
    The first HIV-to-HIV liver transplant at Johns Hopkins.