Chinese use herbal and acupuncture treatments

Hippocrates, the "Father of Modern Medicine" observes patients (Hippocratic Oath)

Eyeglasses used for vision problems - Venetians

William Harvey discoveries - blood circulates, heart pumps blood

Anton van Leeuwenhoek - made a power microscope - 160X magnification

Claudius Amyan - 1st successful appendix surgery

James Lind - discovers cure for scurvy, lack of adequate vitamin C

Benjamin Franklin - invents a lens that is bifocal

Edward Jenner - uses cowpox to combat smallpox successfully

 

Louis Pasteur - made connection between germs and disease from airborne bacteria, or microbes

Florence Nightingale - founder of modern nursing, opens Nightingale School for Nurses

Louis Pasteur - experimented on animals to prove theory that germs cause disease and developed an anthrax vaccine

Louis Pasteur - created a rabies vaccine

Louis Pasteur - using wine, he creates pasteurization, a process of heating the wine up until it kills all of the bacteria

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams - 1st successful open heart surgery

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen - X-rays discovered

Pain is relieved using aspirin

Alexander Fleming - discovers penicillin, 1st antiobiotic, from mold that kills bacteria

Howard Florey - treated the 1st patient with pencillin

Jonas Salk - creates a vaccine for polio

 

Ake Senning - creates 1st pacemaker

WHO helps eradicate smallpox in a mass vaccination campaign

Less invasive surgery is developed, called "keyhole" surgery

Stanley Prusiner wins Nobel Prize for his work on brain disease caused by prions