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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 659
Teeth were treated by fillings
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Jan 1, 754
1st pharmacy was established
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Jan 1, 910
Rhazes identifies small pox from measles
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Jan 1, 1305
Eyeglasses were invented
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Jan 1, 1377
Process of quarantine was introduced
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1509
Robert Hooke built one of the first reflecting microscopes
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First blood transfusion
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Book published about blood circulation
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Discovery that citrus fruit prevents scurvy
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Practice of vaccination began
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope
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Use of ether as an anesthetic
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Discovery of x-rays
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Aspirin powder given to people
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming invents penicillin
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Paul Zoll develops first cardiatric pacemaker
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First organ transplant
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First vaccine for chicken pox
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Dr. William Devries implants Jarvik-7 artificial heart into a patient
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Human Genome discovery
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Period: to
21st Century
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Stem cell research began
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Discovery on how to use skin cells to make embryonic stem cells
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Guinea worm eradicated from the globe
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Dennis Slamon does R&D of nerceptin
