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Period: 400 to Dec 31, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
- The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years
- Medicine practiced only in monasteries and convents.
- Used herbal medicine
- There were many epidemics and plagues - bubonic plague, smallpos, diptheria, syphilis, tuberculosis.
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Period: Aug 28, 1400 to
The Renaissance
The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other European intellectual pursuits. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
The father of the microscope is born. -
Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin invents the Bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person. -
Edward Jenner
Developed a vaccine for smallpox. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing. -
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud is born. The man grew up to study the effects of unconscious mind on the body. He determined that the mind and body work together. His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry. -
Gregory Mendel
Established the patterns of heredity. -
Red Cross
The American Red Cross was founded. -
William Roentgen
Discovered X-Rays. -
Marie Curie
Radium had been Isolated. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
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Polio Vaccine
Developed the polio vaccine in 1952 -
Christian Bernard
In 1967 performed the world's first heart transplant surgery. -
Gene Therapy
In 1972 Friedmann and Roblin authored a paper in Science titled "Gene therapy for human genetic disease?" -
Louis Brown
Louis Brown was the first test tube baby, she was born in 1978 (Great Britain) -
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Aids
Aids was identified sometime in this timespan. -
Dolly The Sheep
The year the sheep was cloned. Tissue Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original. Dolly the Sheep was cloned.
