Important People
Centuries
Inventors
100

Created the Mona Lisa and the last supper and drew human organs, body systems, and human bodies on his painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

100

Includes: First ever kidney transplants, first heart transplants, lung transplants, and the seperation of conjoined twins.

20th Century

100

Created the stethoscope using a rolled up piece of paper; evolved into a wooden tube.

Rene Laennec

200

Developed ethnics for practicing medicine or "Father of Modern Medicine"

Hippocrates

200

Includes: Vaccines, Federalized regulations, and approval of medications.

21st Century 

200

Discovered the polio vaccine 

Jonas Slak

300

Improved sanitation in military hospitals, founded the first nursing college and the founder of modern nursing.

Florence Nightingale

300

Includes: The invention of a mercury thermometer, discovery of the element "Oxygen", Introduced the first feeding tube, and the invention of of bifocals of glasses.

18th Century

300

Developed and used humane treatment for mental illness.

Dr. Philipe Pinel

400

The first person to propose a "blood transfusion" and responsible for the practice of letting the air out of syringes before injections

James Blundell

400

Includes: Methods of sanitation and disinfection, importance of handwashing, the invention of the stethoscope, and the foundation of the American Red Cross.

19th Century

400

Discovered insulin and used it to treat diabetes. 

Fredrick Banting and Charles Best

500

One of the most skilled and accomplished neuro-surgeons today, director of pediatric Neurosurgery, and ran for president in 2016.

Dr. Benjamin Carson

500

Includes: The invention of the microscope, the finding of fallopian tubes in the female, improvement of fractured bones and artificial limbs, and methods of controlled bleeding

16th/17th Century

500

Invented the X-ray and won a Nobel prize for Science in 1901.

Wilhem Conrad Roentgen

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