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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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754
First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy opens in Baghdad -
910
Rhazes
Rhazes discovers smallpox and distinguished it from measles -
1020
Eye surgery
Ammar ibn al-Mawsili performed the first successful eye surgery using a needle and removing a cataract -
1249
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon invents glasses -
1260
Louis IX
establishes a hospital for eye diseases -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1315
Mondino de Luzzi
performed the first public dissection of a human body. -
1348
Black Death
a massive disease that depleted population in England -
1500
C-Sections
The first c-section was performed and the baby lived to 77 years old -
Scientific Method
The use of the scientific method begins. -
Reflective Microscope
Allowed the study of smaller microorganisms like bacteria -
Marie Curie
Curie discovers the science of radioactivity -
Francis Bacon
Uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Anthrax Vaccine
Louis Pasteur developed the first anthrax vaccine -
Rabies Vaccine
Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccine for rabies -
Contact Lenses
The first contact lenses are developed -
Aspirin
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin -
Subonic Plague
Plague hits San Francisco -
Period: to
Modern World
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Earl Dickson
invented the band-aid to prevent infection -
Penicillin
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin -
Salk
Salk discovers the polio vaccine -
Smallpox Eradicated
WHO declares smallpox as completely eradicated -
AZT
AZT is used to combat AIDS -
Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas
used sterile maggots to treat infectious wounds -
Embryonic Stem Cells
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells -
MIPPA
MIPPA provides incentives for practitioners that use electronic health records and e-prescribing -
Gardasil
a vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer is approved by the FDA -
Kidney Trials
The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney
