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B. K. Misra — first neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery. [1] Frederic E. Mohs (1910–2002) — responsible for the method of surgery now called Mohs surgery
Barnard performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation in the early morning hours of Sunday 3 December 1967. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 41 ] Louis Washkansky , a 54-year-old grocer who was suffering from diabetes and incurable heart disease , was the patient.
One of the first recorded physicians Bogar: 3rd century BCE Indian The Pharmacognosy is the best known of his treatises Tirumular: 2nd century BCE Indian Aegimus: 5th century BCE: Greek: first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse Korakkar: 2nd century BCE Indian His works include Korakkar Malai Vagatam (Korakkar's Mountain Medicines) Patanjali
Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /, Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, PC, FRS, FRCSE, FRCPGlas, FRCS (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912 [1]) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery [2] and preventive healthcare. [1]
Was the "first" Puerto Rican cardiologist and a former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico [16] Mario R. García Palmieri: 1927: 2014: Puerto Rico: Was given the title Master of the American College of Cardiology (M.A.C.C.), an honor given to a maximum three cardiologists in practice each year. [17] [18] Mervyn Gotsman: 1935: South Africa
At the time, addicts were lucky to find a hospital bed to detox in. A hundred years ago, the federal government began the drug war with the Harrison Act, which effectively criminalized heroin and other narcotics. Doctors were soon barred from addiction maintenance, until then a common practice, and hounded as dope peddlers.
400 – The first hospital in Latin Christendom was founded by Fabiola at Rome [17] 420 – Caelius Aurelianus a doctor from Sicca Veneria (El-Kef, Tunisia) handbook On Acute and Chronic Diseases in Latin. [13] 447 – Cassius Felix of Cirta (Constantine, Ksantina, Algeria), medical handbook drew on Greek sources, Methodist and Galenist in ...