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300 BCE
Diocles writes anatomy book
It was the first known anatomy book. -
280 BCE
Herophilus
Starts studying the nervous system -
130
Galen was born
He was the Greek physician -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox -
1010
Avicenna
Writes The Book of Healing, and The Canon of Medicine -
1249
Roger Bacon
Invents spectacles -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Leonardo da Vinci
Dissects a corpses -
Zacharius Jannssen
Invents the microscope. This is important because without it there would be numerous things, very tiny things the human eye can not see alone undiscovered -
Reflective Microscope
Allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
starts observing bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand
performs the first successful appendectomy -
Edward Jenner
develops the process of vaccination for smallpox. the first vaccine for any disease -
Sir Humphry Davy
discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide -
Rene Laennec
invents the stethoscope -
James Blundell
performs the first successful transfusion of human blood -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
comes up with the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik
produces the first ultrasound -
Flu vacination
First vaccine developed for influenza -
Jonas Salk
first polio vaccine -
First medical baby born
First test tube baby is born -
Period: to
21st Century
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Cancer
first vaccine to target cause of cancer
