What is the meaning of medicine and what is medical science?
Medical science is a branch of medical science, in which activities related to making an unhealthy person healthy are done. In this science, the suffering and disease of an unhealthy person is studied, after which that disease is diagnosed and its prevention is done. Hippocrates is called the father of medicine.
List of historical events of medical science:
The year | The invention | Inventor |
20000-1000 BC | Ayurveda | Atreya (India) |
Sage Atreya, or Aitareya Punarvasu, was a descendant of sage Atri, one of the great Hindu sages whose siddhis are detailed in the Puranas. He was a native of Taxila, Gandhara. Sage Atreya was a renowned scholar of Ayurveda and six schools of early Ayurveda were founded on the basis of his teachings.
460-370 BC | Western scientific method | Hippocrates - Hippocrates (Greece) |
Hippocrates, or Bucrates, was a prominent scholar of ancient Greece. He was the father of Western medicine of Greece. He wrote the first treatise on human diseases. He is also called the father of medicine.
200-100 BC | Yoga | Patanjali- Patanjali (India) |
Patanjali was a sage of ancient India who is considered the author of many important Sanskrit texts. Of these, the Yogasutra is his greatest work, which is the original text of Yoga Darshan. There are 3 main texts composed by Patanjali in Indian literature. Commentary on Yoga Sutras, Ashtadhyayi and texts on Ayurveda.
550 BC | Ashtanga Hridaya | Vagbhata (India) |
The author of the famous texts of Ayurveda Ashtangasangraha and Ashtangahridaya. This is the person in the ancient literature, who has clearly introduced himself. According to the Ashtangasangraha, he was born in the country of Indus. His grandfather's name was also Vagbhata. He was a disciple of Avalokiteshvara Guru. His father's name was Siddagupta. He was a follower of Buddhism.
750 AD | Siddha Yoga | Vridukunt |
1316 AD | Physiology-Alchemy | Modino - Mondino de Luzzi (Italy) |
Mondino di Luzzi was an Italian physician, anatomist and professor of surgery. He is often credited as the restorer of anatomy because he made fundamental contributions to the field by reintroducing the practice of public dissection of human cadavers and writing the first modern anatomical text.
1493-1541 AD | Chemotherapy | Paracelsus (Switzerland) |
Paracelsus was a distinguished chemist from Switzerland. His real name was Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. For the first time in Europe, he used compounds made of metals in the field of medicine. In Europe, he is considered the originator of pharmaceutical chemicals.
List of major inventors and discoverers of medical science and their inventions (discoveries)
Ivention | The year | Inventor |
Circulation of the Blood | 1628 | William Harvey (Britain) |
Biochemistry | 1648 | Jan Vapatisa Van Hel Mant (Belgium) |
Bacteria (Bacterium) | 1683 | Leuven Hoch (Netherlands) |
Neurology (Nervous System) | 1758-1828 | Franz Joseph Gaal (Germany) |
Physiology | 1757-66 | Elbrecht Van Haller (Switzerland) |
Vaccine | 1796 | Edward Jenner (Britain) |
Histology | 1771-1802 | Marie Conception (France) |
Embryology | 1792-1896 | Karl Ernstavan Baer (Estonia) |
Mafrin | 1805 | Friedrich (Germany) |
Chloroform | 1847 | Sir James Harrison (UK) |
Rabies Vaccine | 1860 | Louis Pasteur (France) |
Bacteriology | 1872 | Fadrinand Kohn (Germany) |
Bacillus of Leprosy | 1873 | Armor Hansen (Norway) |
Germs of cholera and tuberculosis | 1877 | Robert Koch (Germany) |
Malaria | 1880 | Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (France) |
Psychoanalysis (psychology) | 1895 | Sigmund Fried (Austria) |
Serology | 1884-1915 | Paul Erich (Germany) |
Anti toxin | 1890 | Behring and Kitasato (Germany, Japan) |
Adriene | 1894 | Shaffer and Oliver (UK) |
Endocrine Sciences | 1902 | Bellis and Strillon (UK) |
Electro cardiograph | 1906 | Iinova (Holland) |
Typhus Vaccine | 1909 | J. Nicolae (France) |
Ling Harmone | 1910 | Eugen Stenach (Austria) |
Vitamin | 1912 | Sir FG Hopkins (UK) |
Vitamin-C | 1912 | Eujox Holket (Nerve) |
Vitamin A | 1913 | Macullan (USA) |
Vitamin B | 1916 | Macullan (USA) |
Synthetic antigen (antigen) | 1917 | Landsteiner (USA) |
Thyroxine | 1919 | Edward Kendall (USA) |
Diabetes insulin | 1921 | Benting and Best (Canada) |
Vitamin-D | 1922 | Hopkins (USA) |
Vitamin B1 | 1926 | Minatt and Murphy (USA) |
Penicillin | 1928 | Alexander Fleming (UK) |
Curtisone | 1936 | Edward Kendall (USA) |
D DT (dichloro diphenyl-trichloroethane) | 1939 | Paul Müller (Germany) |
RH-factor | 1940 | Karl Landsteiner (USA) |
Streptomycin | 1944 | Selman Waxman (USA) |
L.S. D. (lysergic acid diethylamide) | 1943 | Hoffmann (Switzerlant) |
Kidney Machine | 1944 | Kolf (Holland) |
Chloromycetin | 1947 | Burkholder (USA) |
Ariomycin | 1948 | Duggar (USA) |
Risprin | 1949 | Jal Vakil (India) |
Cryothermal Surgery | 1953 | Henry Swain (USA) |
Terramycin | 1950 | Finlay and others (USA) |
Open Heart Surgery | 1953 | Walton Lillehall (USA) |
Polio myelitis vaccine | 1954 | Jonas Salk (USA) |
Polio oral vaccine | 1954 | Albert Sabin (USA) |
Birth control pills | 1955 | Pincus (USA) |
Use of an artificial heart during surgery | 1963 | Michael de Baque (USA) |
Heart transplant surgery | 1967 | Christian Bernard (South Africa) |
First test tube baby | 1978 | Steptoe and Robert Edwards (UK) |
Gene therapy on humans | 1980 | Martin Klaw (USA) |
Eradication of smallpox | 1980 | World Health Organization Declaration (USA) |
Genes linked to cancer | 1982 | Robert Weinberg et al. (USA) |
Asprin | 1899 | Heinrich Dresser (Germany) |
Diphtheria bacteria | 1883 | Edwin Clebs |
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Jonas Salk was the discoverer of the oral polio vaccine. Jonas Salk, was an American scientist who in 1955 developed the vaccine (also known as oral polio vaccine) against the poliovirus. This vaccine is used in successful programs against polio almost all over the world.
The vaccine for smallpox was invented by Edward Jenner. Jenner, a British physician, developed the first vaccine in 1796 using material taken from a cowpox-infected cow.
The use of artificial heart for surgery was started by Christiaan Barnard. The world's first human heart transplant was performed by Christian Bernard on 3 December 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dhanvantari is considered the Vaidya of Ayurveda, the 'Lord of Medicine'. Dhanvantari is an incarnation of Vishnu in Hinduism. He is the originator of Ayurveda. According to Hindu religion, he is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He had descended on the earth at the time of the churning of the ocean.
Cholera and TB bacteria were discovered by Robert Koch in the year 1982. Robert Koch is considered a pioneer in the field of microbiology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in the year 1905 for his discovery of bacteria.