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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox -
1010
Avicenna
Writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
1100
Trota of Salerno
A famous woman doctor lives -
1200
Schools
Schools of medicine are founded in Europe -
1249
Roger Bacon
Invented the spectales -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Leo da Vinci
Dissects corpses -
Zacharius Jannssen
Invents the microscope -
Sir Christopher Wren
Experiments with canine blood transfusions -
Microscope Invented
Allowed for study of microscopic organism -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Giacomo Pylarini
Gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand
Performed the first successful appendectomy -
Edward Jenner
Develps the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease -
Sir Humphry Davy
Discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide -
Rene Laennec
Invents the stethoscope -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Introduces the system to classify blood into A,B,AB, and O groups -
Dr. Paul Dudley White
Pioneers the use of the electrocardiogram-ECG -
Edward Mellanby
discovers that lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets -
Insulin
First used to treat diabetes -
Vaccine
First vaccine developed for diphtheria -
Period: to
21st Century
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Transplant
The first face transplant takes place -
Vaccine
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
Vaccine
First HPV vaccine approved -
Transplant
The first leg transplant takes place -
Transplant
The first womb transplant takes place
