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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
middle ages
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Apr 7, 910
Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
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Apr 7, 1010
The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine was written
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Apr 7, 1203
organized hospital of Santo Spirito
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Apr 7, 1210
William of Saliceto,
He broke tradition with Galen by claiming that pus formation was bad for wounds and for the patient. -
Apr 7, 1300
concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy.
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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Zacharius Jannssen
invents the microscope -
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 was published
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Sir Christopher Wren
experiments with canine blood transfusions -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
discovers blood cells -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Giacomo Pylarini
gives the first smallpox inoculations -
properties of nitrous oxide discoverd
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first successful transfusion of human blood was performed
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Crawford W. Long
uses either as a general anesthetic -
Dr. Horace Wells
uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic -
Period: to
Modern World
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Alfred Goldberg
lay the foundation for the first proteasome-inhibiting cancer therapy. -
First vaccine developed for hepatitis A
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
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First vaccine for lyme disease.
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Ralph Weissleder
develop fluorescent molecular probes that fluoresce upon contact with tumor enzymes, allowing the detection of minute clusters of tumor cells. -
Period: to
21st Century
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identify four types of brain abnormalities associated with abuse and neglect experienced in childhood.
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Paul Ridker
C-reactive protein predicts the chances of developing heart disease, leading to new guidelines for predicting cardiovascular disease. -
Stuart Orkin
identify the first regulatory molecule that puts the brakes on the proliferation of blood stem cells and also preserves the integrity of those stem cells -
Dana-Farber
achieve a medical first by using a targeted drug to drive a patient's metastatic melanoma into remission. -
identify two novel markers that, when elevated in the bloodstream, accurately predict the risk of kidney failure in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
