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Women often die from childbirth, infection, choldren usually did not live into adulthood becuase of infection left untreated or dental problems.
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Opium was sometimes used as an anaesthetic while wounds were cleaned with wine to try and prevent infections.
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Many people often used Jesus as a healer. They claimed he could heal the blind and give them sight, let the paralyzed walk, cast the devil out of a possession, heal a women with a blood disease and even rais the dead. They beleived that the reason you were sick was because you angered the gods or messed with the devil.
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Medical Schools started mostly in Europe, the most famous school was Salerno in Southern Italy. Suprising Salerno allowed women to study there even though it was one of the most famous and very powerful school. It was one of the very first schools to let womens study in the Medical feild.
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Barbers not only cut your hair, they also do surgerys suck was amputations, dental extraction, blood letting or blood leeching and even trepanning (Drilling a hole into the human skull to "relieve" pressure from the brain, or to let out the demons in the mind.) Sometimes after operations bloody bandages would be placed out on the barber pole as a sign of advertisment. The Barber pole also was a symbold, Red was the blood, white was the bandages and blue was the veins.
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Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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Muslim mathtician and scientist Alhazen created the first eyeglass as a way to magnifie small words in books. About 20 years after that many people started to wear spectacles. Spectacles had convex lenses that could correct their eyesights from far sighted to near sighted.
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Jocaba Felicie was denied from practicing medicine without a license, she defended herself by saying thtat sometimes womens felt embarassed to go to a male doctor. The judge did not find this in her favor and she was forbidden to practice medicine.
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Printing presses allowed others to publicize there discovers in the newspapers.
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The Structure of the Human Body, written by Belgian physician and professor Andreas Vesalius and published in 1543. His textbook soon became the athorative reference.
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Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani
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William Harvey publishes 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
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William Harvey publishes 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
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James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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William Morton, a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first openly identified woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in Britain. Her sister Emily was the third woman in the US to get a medical degree.
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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease
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Hewson examined red cells, which he found in the serum to be flat rather than globular, and described white blood cells. which he observed by diluting blood with serum instead of water. As a result of his discoveries, Hewson has sometimes been called the father of hematology.
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First vaccine for rabies was developed by Louis Pasteur. In his early years Pasteur had already acquired considerable renown and respect in France
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Emil von Behring discovers antioxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines
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Cocaine anesthesia was first suggested in 1859 by Karl Koller, at the suggestion of Sigmund Freud, in eye surgery. German surgeon August Bier was the first to actually use cocaine for intrathecal anesthesia in 1898 during surgery.
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Wilhelm Roentgen, a German professor of physics, was the first person to discover X-Rays. To highlight the unknown nature of his discovery, he called them X-rays. For his remarkable achievement he was honored with the first he first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid
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Percy Lavon Julian synthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis.
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The first successful kidney transplant was done by Docter Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital in Boston. The patient was Richard Herrick his identical twin Ronald offered his kidney to be transplanted to his brothers.
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Gertrude Elion patented a leukemia-fighting drug
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On 3 December 1967, South African doctor, Dr Christiaan Barnard, performed the world's first human to human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
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Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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The world’s first full face transplant took place in Spain. The patient was a man injured in a shooting accident. In July, the patient Oscar spoke with difficulty at a news conference at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron hospital, where he was operated on in late March.
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Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method to help CSI find forenistic evidence.
