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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
500 BC-Alcmaeon distinguishes veins from arteries
500 BC- Bian Que becomes earliest physician known to use acupuncture.
910 BC-Rhazes identifies Smallpox
1010 BC-The Book of Healing and the Canon of Medicine is written.
1300-London Medical Papyrus found with 61 medical recipes -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
1489 BC- Leonardo da VInci dissects corpses
1500 BC- Saffron is used as a medicine in Greece for the first time.
1590 BC- Microscope is invented
1670 BC- Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
1683 BC- Anton observes bacteria -
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Industrial Revolution
1701-Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
1763-Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
1796- The first vaccine for any disease was invented
1816- Stethoscope was invented
1895- Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays -
Period: to
Modern World
1901-Karl Landsteiner classifies blood into A, B, AB, and O groups.
1922- Insulin is used to treat diabetes for the first time
1942- Ultrasound is published
1967- Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
1983- HIV is identified -
Period: to
21st Century
2000- The Human Genome Project draft was complete
2001- The first telesurgery was preformed
2005- Jean-Michel Dubernard preforms the first partial face plant
2006- First vaccine to target a cause for cancer is identified
2017- Dana Lewis created first ever Artificial Pancreas.