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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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659
Dental Amalgams
dental fillings were created -
754
Pharmacies
the first pharmacy was established -
900
Rhazes
discovered difference between measles and smallpox -
1010
Avicenna
writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
1249
Roger Bacon
Bacon invents spectacles -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
first corpse dissected
Leonardo DaVinchi dissects the first corpse. -
Microscope
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope -
Sir Christipher Wren
started medically expirimenting on dogs -
Reflective microscope
It allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria -
Bacteria
Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria -
smallpox inoculations
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Reveloution
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James lind
discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy -
Edward jenner
Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus. -
Anesthesia
Sir Humphry Davy announces the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide -
Period: to
Modern World
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Selman A. Waksman
invents the antibiotic streptomycin -
Lyme disease
the first vaccine for lyme disease -
genome
The first draft of human genome is announced -
Period: to
21st Century
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Mini-liver
the first mini liver is created by human blood cord stem cells -
embryonic stem cells
Scientists figure out how to use human skin cells to make embryonic stem cells. -
Clinical traits
the FDA approves the first human clinical traits for a wearable artificial kidney -
woolly mammoth
DNA of a wooly mammoth is spliced into an elephant
