From Hippocrates to Hippo
420 BC
Hippocrates maintains that diseases have natural causes and puts forth the Hippocratic Oath.
300 BC
Dioclese writes the first known anatomy book.
200
Galen defines clinical medicine based on observation and experience.
1249
Roger Bacon invents spectacles.
1489
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpse.
1590
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.
1628
William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals.
1818
James Blundell Performs the first successful human blood transfusion.
1895
X-rays discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen.
1903
Willem Einthoven invents electro-cardiography (ECG/EKG).
1953
James Watson and Francis Crick work on the structure of the DNA molecule.
1954
Joseph Murray performs the first human kidney transplant.
1968
Mass General clinicians pioneer telemedicine, the practice of medicine over closed-circuit television.
1971
First MRI and CAT Scan developed.
2001
First tele-surgery performed by Jacques Marescaux.
2020
Hippo Technologies launches Hippo Virtual Care platform and pioneers Polymorphic Medicine.
