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Medical Schools
Medical schools began to spread throughout Europe. -
65
Materia Medica
Discorides wrote his Materia Medica -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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1140
Roger of Sicily
Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a licence. -
1180
Apothecary Shops
Apothecary shops opened in important towns. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1346
Black Death
The plague caused many death across Europe -
1350
Smallpox
small pox broke out in North and South America -
1423
Surgical procedures
Surgical procedures improved and survival from even simple procedures increased -
1553
Girolamo Fracastoro
Girolamo Fracastoro suggested that epidemics may come from pathogens outside the body -
William Harvey
William Harvey discovered that the heart pumps blood around the body -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Quinine
Cures, such as Quinine from the bark of the Quina tree was discovered to treat malaria -
James Lind
Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. -
Vaccines
Edward Jenner creates a vaccine for small pox by exposing someone to cow pox -
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy announces an anesthetic property of nitrous oxide -
James Blundell
James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood -
X rays
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Blood Type
Karl Landsteiner describes blood compatibility and rejection. what happens when a person receives a blood transfusion from another human of either compatible or incompatible -
Sir Fredrick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health -
Insulin
Insulin first used to treat diabetes. -
Influenza vaccine
First vaccine for influenza which helped the U.S. during WWII -
Heart transplant
South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant. -
Human Genome
First draft of human genome is announced -
Period: to
21st Century
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Prenatal nutrition
Mary-Elizabeth Patti and colleagues at Joslin show that poor prenatal nutrition permanently damages the function of insulin-producing cells in the embryo’s pancreas, -
Cholesterol
Dana-Farber researchers identify a molecular mechanism in the liver that explains how eating foods rich in saturated fats and trans-fatty acids causes elevated blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides -
Donald Ingber
Donald Ingber demonstrate how to turn cells on and off using magnets -
Artificial Kidney
The FDA approves the first wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc.
