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This was established connecting the world with a common goal, to help people by understanding how to cure disease.

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The FDA approved Da Vinci, the first robotic surgical system, which allowed for smaller surgical incisions, less pain, and faster recovery in 2000. This revolutionizes the performance of surgery from that point on.

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The Completion of the Human Genome Project

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The Completion of the Human Genome Project

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Provides us with all the research we have today on the human genome.

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Revolutionized the separation of conjoined twins, hemispherectomy, and craniofacial reconstructive surgery.

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The first successful open heart surgery was preformed by a black surgeon. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. Dr. Daniel Williams completed the operation on a young man named James Cornish.

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Classified ABO blood groups making blood transfusions much more successful.

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Discovered the cause of yellow fever to be mosquitos.

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Francis Crick and James Watson with Maurice Wilkins for discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This drastically changed science's understanding of medicine that continues to mystify us today.

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Saw many different discoveries.
--Royal College of Surgeons (medical school) founded in London in 1800
--French barbers acted as surgeons by extracting teeth, using leeches for treatment, and giving enemas
--First successful blood transfusion was performed on humans in 1818 by James Blundell
--René Laënnec (1781–1826) invented the stethoscope in 1816

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Many medical discoveries were made during the 16th and 17th centuries.
--Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) the Father of Modern Surgery
--Anton van Leeuwenhoek-the invention of the microscope
--Edward Jenner--developed a vaccine to prevent smallpox

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The Renaissance was the rebirth of using science in medicine. One important event is the use of dissection to discover, understand, and treat disease. This is a practice that is continued today.

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This period contains the dark ages and the middle ages. The dark ages are important because they show no progress at all, people reverted back into the old ways of religion curing diseases as well as being the cause for it. The middle ages gave some light at the end of the tunnel, people began to be interested in the way the Romans treated disease and medical universities were born. The bubonic plague also occurred during the 1300's.

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The Romans were the first to understand that poor sanitation, filth, and contaminated water lead to disease and infection. So they began to try and fight that by building sewers to move waste away and aqueducts to bring clean water in. This is very important and upheld in all developed nations today.

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Hippocrates is known as the father of medicine because he began swearing to the healing gods promising to follow a strict code of ethics. Today the oath is modernized and symbolizes a student's passage from the school to the medical field.

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The Ancient Egyptians were the first to keep detailed health care records.

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This was the beginning era of medical treatment and beliefs. People believed that illness was punishment from the gods. Herbs and tribal witch doctors were used to fight diseases.