Subcategories - Doctors, Physicians, Nurses
- Abel and Takamine Independently Isolate Adrenaline
- AIDS Scientists and Activists Meet in Amsterdam
- al-Razi
- Albert Calmette
- Albert Schweitzer
- Alcmaeon
- Andreas Vesalius
- Aretaeus of Cappadocia
- Arnold of Villanova
- Artificial Fluoridation of Municipal Water Supplies to Prevent Dental Decay Is Introduced
- Asclepiades of Bithynia
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus
- Averroës
- Barnard Performs the First Human Heart Transplant
- Behring Discovers the Diphtheria Antitoxin
- Benjamin Rush
- Benjamin Spock
- Bernardo Alberto Houssay
- Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
- Blalock Performs the First “Blue Baby” Operation
- Bocage Devises Theory of Tomography
- Brown Gives Birth to the First “Test-Tube” Baby
- Carlos Montezuma
- Carrel Develops a Technique for Rejoining Severed Blood Vessels
- Christiaan Barnard
- Clara Barton
- Claude Bernard
- Clewell Corrects Hydrocephalus by Surgery on a Fetus
- Controversy Arises over Estrogen and Heart Attacks
- Daffos Uses Blood Taken Through the Umbilical Cord to Diagnose Fetal Disease
- DeVries Implants the First Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
- Diocles of Carystus
- Domagk Discovers That a Sulfonamide Can Save Lives
- Donald Is the First to Use Ultrasound to Examine Unborn Children
- Drinker and Shaw Develop an Iron Lung Mechanical Respirator
- Edward Jenner
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Emil von Behring
- Erasistratus
- Favaloro Develops the Coronary Artery Bypass Operation
- The First Successful Human Embryo Transfer Is Performed
- First U.S. Hand Transplant Is Performed
- Florence Nightingale
- Flosdorf Demonstrates Freeze-Drying of Food
- Galen
- Georg Ernst Stahl
- Gibbon Develops the Heart-Lung Machine
- Greek Physicians Begin Scientific Practice of Medicine
- Grijns Proposes That Beriberi Is Caused by a Nutritional Deficiency
- Gruentzig Uses Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty, via a Balloon Catheter, to Unclog Diseased Arteries
