Important Medical Discoveries Timeline. In a first, the newly developed drinker respirator (iron lung) saves a polio patient at peter bent brigham in collaboration with children's hospital medical center, today boston children’s hospital, and the harvard school of public health. Alhazen systematically studies optics and refraction, which would later be important in making the connection between geometric (ray) optics and wave theory.

Antiquity medical inventions and discoveries. As science and medicine progresses, the research community has had an incredible effect on life expectancy and i’ve looked at seven of the greatest discoveries to impact human health. In 1953, gibbon performs the first successful open heart procedure on a human using cardiopulmonary bypass.