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500 BCE
discovery (middle ages)
Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries -
500 BCE
acupuncture (middle ages)
Bian Que becomes the earliest physician known to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_medicine_and_medical_technology -
Period: 500 to 1300
middle ages
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910
Rhazes (middle ages)
Persian physician Rhazes is the first to see that smallpox is different from measles, and suggested blood as the cause of disease. -
1010
book on healing and medicine (middle ages)
Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
1249
invention (middle ages)
invention of spectacles -
Period: 1301 to
renaissance
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1489
Dissections (Renaissances)
dissection of corpses -
Zacharius Jannssen (Renaissance)
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope -
Heart (renaissance)
People figure out how blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart, and then returns to the heart and recirculates. -
Blood Transfusion (Renaissance)
experimenting on dogs, English architect Sir Christopher Wren is the first to administer medications intravenously. He also experiments with canine blood transfusions -
microorganisms (Renaissance)
blood cells are discovered and people see animal and plant tissues and microorganisms -
Period: to
industrial revolution
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René Laënnec (industrial revolution)
René Laënnec invents the stethoscope. -
human blood transfusion (industrial revolution)
the first successful transfusion of human blood. -
anesthetic (industrial revolution)
Boston dentist Dr. William Morton demonstrates ether's anesthetic properties during a tooth extraction -
First woman with med degree (industrial revolution)
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to receive a medical degree -
Vaccine (industrial revolution)
First vaccine for cholera -
Period: to
modern world
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vitamins and concludes (modern world)
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes -
cardiologist (modern world)
Dr. Paul Dudley White becomes one of America's first cardiologists -
diabetes (modern world)
Insulin first used to treat diabetes. -
diphtheria (modern world)
First vaccine for diphtheria. -
tuberculosis (modern world)
First vaccine for tuberculosis. -
human genome (21st century)
First draft of human genome is announced -
Period: to
21st century
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cause of cancer (21st century)
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
stem cells (21st century)
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
Brigham and Women’s scientists (21st century)
Brigham and Women’s scientists discover a striking subset of T cells that collaborate with other immune cells
https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/history-hms/timeline-discovery -
enhancer transcription (21st century)
environmental stimuli activate certain sections of DNA, enhancing the process by which messenger RNAs are created, and that these “enhancer regions” play a role in driving gene expression, the first evidence of widespread enhancer transcription.
https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/history-hms/timeline-discovery
