Medicine is about 2,400 years old. Some of the first recorded medicine was practiced on a Greek island named Coy.
Galen was born in A.D. 130. He studied at Alexandria and practiced in Rome. He practiced mostly on animals (apes, dogs, and pigs) but sometimes he practiced on humans. Galen found out that the brain controlled the body. He was also the head doctor and treated the Emperor.
Pare was born in 1510. He studied Barber Surgery. He was a surgeon in the army for twenty-five years. He wrote two books, Works on Surgery (1515) and The Apology and Treatise (1585). He learned a new way to treat bullet wounds, and was the first to amputate body parts.
Harvey was born in 1578, studied at Padua, and practiced in London. He compared animals to humans. He had learned about valves. He was also the first to have the idea that the heart is a pump.
In 1940 Charel Drew invented fake blood plasma to be used in blood transplants instead of whole blood transplants.
Leonard Bailey performed the first transplant of an animal organ into a human in 1984. The patient was an infant which was given a baboon's heart. The transplant was fatal because of the different blood types.
By: Shannon Sullivan
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