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400
Fabiola at Rome
The first hospital in Latin Christendom was founded -
500
Rhazes
discovered the difference between measles and smallpox. -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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1010
Avicenna
The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine is written -
1249
Roger Bacon
invented spectacles -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Leonardo da Vinci
dissects corpses -
Zacharius Jannssen
invention of the microscope -
Sir Christopher Wren
experiments with canine blood transfusions -
Microscope is invented
allowed for the study of microscopic organisms -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
discovery of blood cells -
Giacomo Pylarini
first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand
first successful appendectomy -
Edward Jenner
develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease -
Rene Laennec
invention of the stethoscope -
James Blundell
first successful transfusion of human blood -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Sir Alexander Fleming
discovery penicillin -
Selman A. Waksman
discovers the antibiotic streptomycin -
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
first kidney transplant -
Jonas Salk
first polio vaccine -
Period: to
21st Century
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Human Genome
Human genome draft completed -
Face transplants
first face transplant -
Doctors
cloning stem cells -
embryonic stem cells
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
Human clinical trial
The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc.
