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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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659
The first use of substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin.
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754
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad.
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1200
Ibn al-Haythan came up with a new explanation for vision through his research of the optics and the anatomy of the human eye.
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1231
Fredrick II promulgated a set of laws concerning medical education standards and licensure.
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1289
The medical university of Montpellier was founded
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1348
Black Death outbreak.
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1450
Started a shift in medicine towards more of a scientific approach which led to new discoveries
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1500
Increased anatomical knowledge which allowed many new discoveries for human anatomy
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1543
Vesalius publishes his findings on human anatomy in De Frabica Corporis Humani
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Peter Chamberlen invented the obstetrical forceps, used to free a baby from the whom during a difficult birth without hurting the baby or the mother.
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Anto van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first small pox inoculations.
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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The first stethoscope was invented by a French physician.
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James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of the human blood..
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Began using chloroform for operations
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Rubber gloves were first used in operations.
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Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A,B,AB, and O groups.
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes
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Developed the technique of CPR.
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Thomas Starzl performed the first human liver transplant
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Doctors recorded the last fatal case of smallpox.
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Period: to
21st Century
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A group of surgeons managed to implant a new generation artificial heart in a patient.
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Doctors began to introduce potential STEM cells and also cloned human STEM cells.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer.
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Development of the first advanced movement of the first prosthetic leg that communicates with the mind.
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Artificial Kidney and Liver grown in laboratories.
