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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Aug 31, 800
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between small poxs and measles. -
Jan 21, 1315
Anatomy and Dissection
an Italian Physician conducted the first public dissection, and the next year he wrote "Anathomia Corporis Humani" which was the first example of a dissection manual and the first true anatomical text. -
Apr 13, 1377
Quarantine
Used Quarantine for th5e first time (the Italian Quaranta) which led to the use of it in other parts of Italy and Europe. -
Feb 22, 1489
Leonardo De Vinci dissects corpses
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Dec 11, 1500
Hospitals
The concept of Hospitals emerged from the Roman Empire. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
The Renaissance
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Sep 14, 1501
Cesarean Sections
first written record of a mother and a child both surviving a Cesarean section. -
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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Use of the scientific method begins.
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Blood Cells
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells. -
Francis Bacon
Used microscope to discover plague fleas. -
Period: to
Industrial revolution
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Discovery of anaesthetic
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Rene Laennec
Invents the stethoscope -
First successful transfusion of human blood.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
The first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York. -
First use/ discovery of X-Rays.
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Period: to
The Modern World
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First vaccine to treat tetanus was invented
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Jonas Salk
Develops the first polio vaccine. -
Smallpox is eradicated.
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HIV was identified as the virus that causes AIDS.
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Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method.
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Period: to
The 21st Century
