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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Rhazes discovered the difference between small pox and measles. -
1242
Ibn an-Nafis
Ibn an-Nafis suggest that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separated and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation -
1249
Roger Bacon writes about convex lens spectacle for treating long-sightedness
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1288
Hospital Santa Maria Nuova is founded in Florence and is strictly medical
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1300
concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy
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Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1305
Human anatomical studies allowed
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Use of scientific method begins
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Printing Press
Allowed for publication of medical discoveries. -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner develpos the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur identifies germs as clause of disease. -
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays
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First vaccin developed for typhoid fever
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First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague
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Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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The first heart transplant is performed by Christiaan Barnard
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MRI scanning is introduced
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Period: to
21st Century
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Jean-Michel Dubernard performs the first partial face transplant
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First HPV vaccine approved
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Fist vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant
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The first artificial pancreas was created
