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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the differences between measles and small pocks -
1010
Avicenna
writes "The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine" -
1200
Aesculapius Greek God of Healing: Caduceus is the symbol for medicine
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1249
Roger Bacon
invents the spectacles -
1300
Islamic Hospitals care for the sick
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Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie
tries to practice medicine but is denied -
use of scientific method begins
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Reflective Microscopes
Allow study of microorganisms like bacteria -
Robert Hooke
- reflective microscope
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Francis Bacon
uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
Giacomo Pylarini
gives the first smallpox inoculation -
Period: to
Industrial
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Rene Laennec
invents the stethoscope -
Louis Pasteur
identifies germs as cause of disease -
First vaccine developed for cholera
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First contact lenses developed
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Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Earle Dickson
Invented the Band-Aid -
Insulin first used to treat diabetes
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First vaccine developed for yellow fever
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First vaccine developed for typhus
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Period: to
21st Century
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Jean-Michel Dubernard
performs the first partial face transplant -
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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A "mini-liver"—the size of a small coin—is generated from human cord blood stem cells by doctors at Newcastle University, U.K.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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Laurent Lantieri
performs the first full face transplant
