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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle age
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900
Rhazes
Identifies small pox -
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 corpses -
Zacharius Jannssen
Invents the microscope -
William Harvey
Publishes book based on blood -
Sir Christopher Wren
Experiments with canine blood transfusions -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Observes bacteria -
Giacomo Pylarini
First smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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James Blundell
First successful transfusion of human blood -
Vaccine
First vaccine developed for cholera -
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Discovers x-rays -
Felix Hoffman
Developed aspirin -
Period: to
Modern World
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Jonas Salk
Developed first polio vaccine -
Smallpox
Smallpox is eradicated -
HIV
Discovery of HIV virus that causes AIDS -
Vaccine
First vaccine available for hep A -
DNA
First clone of a sheep -
Period: to
21st Century
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Smoke free laws
Smoking is prohibited in workplaces, restaurants and bars -
Stem Cells
Cloned human stem cells -
Laparoscopic Surgery's
Quicker recovery for major surgery's -
Prosthetic leg
First advanced movement prosthetic leg
