MilestonesinMedicalDiagnosisandDiagnosticImaging.docVIP

Milestones in Medical Diagnosis and Diagnostic Imaging Date Development or Discovery c. 400 BC Disease concept introduced by Greek physician Hippocrates. 1612 Medical Thermometer devised by Italian physician Sanctorius c. 1660 Light microscope developed by Dutch naturalist Antohj van Leeuwenhoek 1810 Stethoscope invented by French physician Rene Laennec. 1850 - 1900 Germ theory of disease proposed by French scientist Louis Pasteur and developed by German bacteriologist Robert Koch. 1895 X-rays discovered by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. He also produced the first x-ray pictu