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500
Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
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500
Aristotle believed that the heart controlled the body and not the heart
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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910
Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
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1010
Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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1249
Roger Bacon invents spectacles
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
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Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox vaccination
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Sir Humphry Davy discovers the anesthetics properties of nitrous oxide
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Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
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First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur
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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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First vaccine developed for diphtheria
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First vaccine developed for whooping cough
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine
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Scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public
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Period: to
21st Century
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A final draft was made of the human genome
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic began removing kidneys through a single incision in the patient's navel
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Even more updates to the genome were published by Craig Venter, PhD, chief scientist behind Celera Genomics
