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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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542
Hospital
The first hospital is created -
910
Rhaze
Rhaze identifies smallpox -
1010
The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine. -
1100
Trota of Salerno
A female doctor named Trota of Salerno lives. -
1249
Glasses
Glasses are invented. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1536
Ambroise Pare
Ambroise Pare made a mixture of egg whites, rose oil, and turpentine to put on wounds. -
1541
Paracelsus
Paracelsus says that unless you know what you're doing or preforming an experiment it isn't valid medicine. -
1543
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius wrote a book called The Fabric of the Human Body. -
William Harvey
He discovered how blood circulates throughout the body. -
Capillaries
Capillaries are discovered. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Small Pox vaccine
The smallpox vaccine was created -
Scurvy
The reasons of scurvy are discovered, leading to future preventative functions. -
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Learns why puerperal fever happens, and how to stop it from happening -
Anesthesia
For the first time, anesthesia is used in surgery. -
Reginald Heber Fitz
Reginald Heber Fitz is the first person to discover appendicitis. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Insilun
Insilun starts being used in the U.S. to treat diabetes -
William Hinton
William Hinton created a blood test to test for syphilis -
Pap smear
The pap smear is fixed to test for cervical cancer -
Tumor Growth
A synthetic compound is created that blocks the growth of blood vessels associated with tumors. -
Triple organ transplant
The first triple organ transplant was completed. 2 lungs and a heart. -
Abuse on the brain
Researchers find that abuse and neglect have large effects on the brain -
Period: to
21st Century
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Kidney failure
Doctors learn how to predict kidney failure in patients with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes -
Zika vaccine
The first 2 Zika vaccine canidates were produced -
Andrew Kruse
Reveals the molecular structure of a sigma-1 receptor. -
circadian rythm and bipolar disorder
The discovery that circadian rythm leads to an inbalance of chemicals that causes bipolar disorder to worsen in the morning.
