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Period: 500 to 1300
The Middle Ages
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754
First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy was opened in Baghdad -
900
Rhazes
Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
1200
Middle age education
Around this time university started teaching more medicine and the practice of it. -
1300
Early anathesiology
Theodoric Borgognoni would make patients fall unconscious by placing a sponge soaked in opium, mandrake, hemlock and other substances under their nose. -
1300
Clean wounds
Bandages pre-soaked in wine were used as a form of disinfected -
Period: 1301 to
The Renaissance
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1410
The first portble watch
Architect Brunelleschi made the first portable watch was very important such as when timing pregnancy contractions and how much blood had been lost in a matter time and calculating bpm. -
1543
Inside the Body Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius dissected human bodies and made detailed drawings of everything, this increased the knowledge of anatomy in the human body. -
1559
The microscope
The microscope was and it had developed magnification up to 270x over the years. -
Circulatory system
William Harvey discovered the circulatory system and explained how it acted like a muscle and it contracted. -
Printing Press
Allowed for publication of medical discoveries. -
Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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Rene Laennec
He invents the stethoscope. -
The first successful blood tranfussion
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First vaccine for cholera was invented
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays. -
First Vaccine for Plague
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Period: to
Modern World
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes
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First vaccine for tuberculosis.
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First vaccine for influenza
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Paul Zoll
Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat. -
First human heart tranplant
South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Human genome
A draft of the human genome was created to investigate bacteria in are body even further. -
Mini liver
A mini liver is generate from human cord blood stem cells by doctors at Newcastle University, U.K -
Stem cells
Doctor began to induce potential stem cells and also cloned human stem cells -
Smoking
No smoke laws and campaigns reduce public smoking to try to reduce secondhand smoke. -
Bionic limbs
Advanced prosthetic leg that communicates with the users mind
