Subcategories - Doctors, Physicians, Nurses

  1. Abel and Takamine Independently Isolate Adrenaline
  2. AIDS Scientists and Activists Meet in Amsterdam
  3. al-Razi
  4. Albert Calmette
  5. Albert Schweitzer
  6. Alcmaeon
  7. Andreas Vesalius
  8. Aretaeus of Cappadocia
  9. Arnold of Villanova
  10. Artificial Fluoridation of Municipal Water Supplies to Prevent Dental Decay Is Introduced
  11. Asclepiades of Bithynia
  12. Aulus Cornelius Celsus
  13. Averroës
  14. Barnard Performs the First Human Heart Transplant
  15. Behring Discovers the Diphtheria Antitoxin
  16. Benjamin Rush
  17. Benjamin Spock
  18. Bernardo Alberto Houssay
  19. Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
  20. Blalock Performs the First “Blue Baby” Operation
  21. Bocage Devises Theory of Tomography
  22. Brown Gives Birth to the First “Test-Tube” Baby
  23. Carlos Montezuma
  24. Carrel Develops a Technique for Rejoining Severed Blood Vessels
  25. Christiaan Barnard
  26. Clara Barton
  27. Claude Bernard
  28. Clewell Corrects Hydrocephalus by Surgery on a Fetus
  29. Controversy Arises over Estrogen and Heart Attacks
  30. Daffos Uses Blood Taken Through the Umbilical Cord to Diagnose Fetal Disease
  31. DeVries Implants the First Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
  32. Diocles of Carystus
  33. Domagk Discovers That a Sulfonamide Can Save Lives
  34. Donald Is the First to Use Ultrasound to Examine Unborn Children
  35. Drinker and Shaw Develop an Iron Lung Mechanical Respirator
  36. Edward Jenner
  37. Elizabeth Blackwell
  38. Emil von Behring
  39. Erasistratus
  40. Favaloro Develops the Coronary Artery Bypass Operation
  41. The First Successful Human Embryo Transfer Is Performed
  42. First U.S. Hand Transplant Is Performed
  43. Florence Nightingale
  44. Flosdorf Demonstrates Freeze-Drying of Food
  45. Galen
  46. Georg Ernst Stahl
  47. Gibbon Develops the Heart-Lung Machine
  48. Greek Physicians Begin Scientific Practice of Medicine
  49. Grijns Proposes That Beriberi Is Caused by a Nutritional Deficiency
  50. Gruentzig Uses Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty, via a Balloon Catheter, to Unclog Diseased Arteries