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500
Alcmaeon of Croton
Distinguished veins from arteries -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle ages
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659
Dental Amalgams
Substance for tooth fillings, made up from silver and tin. -
754
Pharmacies
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad -
900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between smallpox and measles -
1249
Roger Bacon
Invents spectacles. -
1300
Theodoric Borgognoni
Came up with an antiseptic method to clean and saturate the wound to promote healing. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1377
Quarantine
Making arrival ships wait 30 days in the harbor before docking and land travelers waited 40 days for authorities to make sure no one was infected. -
1500
Jacob Nufer
Performed the first successful cesarean section where both the mother and the child survived. -
Zacharius Jannssen
He invented the microscope -
Sir Christopher Wren
Experiments with canine blood transfusion. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
-
Claudius Aymand
Performs the first successful appendectomy. -
Smallpox vaccination
Edward Jenner develops the first vaccination for smallpox. -
James Blundell
Performed the fist successful human blood transfusion. -
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Discovers the x-rays -
Felix Hoffman
Develops aspirin -
Period: to
Modern World
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Insulin
The first time insulin was used to treat diabetes -
Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik
Publishes the first paper on medical ultrasound. -
CAT-scans
Robert S. Ledley invented the CAT-scan -
HIV
The virus that causes AIDS is identified. -
Willem J. Kolff
He invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Jacques Marescaux
He performed the first telesurgery -
Mini liver
A mini liver is generated from human cord blood cells. -
Laurent Lantieri
Performs the first full face transplant -
Skull transplant
3-D printer is used for the first ever skull transplant -
3-D heart
3-D print heart from human patients cells
