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Period: 500 to 1300
middle ages
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900
rhazes
discovered the difference between measles and small pox -
910
discovery of small pox
rhazes identifies small pox -
1010
Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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1200
medical schools were all throughout europe
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1249
spectacles are invented
helped people see -
Period: 1301 to
renassance
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1340
black death
the black death started spreading and no one could stop it -
1489
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
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new lands, new diseases
the settlers met the Indians disease spread like wildfire -
Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
which that lead to the study of blood transfusions today -
microscope invented
allowed for study for microscopic organisms -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
the first small pox vaccination -
Period: to
industiral revolution
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john hunter
founder of pathological anatomy -
the first successful human blood transfusion was done
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living conditions in the industrial revolution
people were so cramped that there was sewage near the water supply and that is when disease spread everywhere -
Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic
figures out the first aniceptic -
Elizabeth Blackwell
first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York -
Period: to
modern world
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Karl Landsteiner
introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
First vaccine developed for diphtheria.
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First vaccine developed for tuberculosis
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First vaccine developed for whooping cough
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Smallpox is eradicated
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Period: to
21st century
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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James Thompson and Jeffery Jones
discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
bionic limbs
first advanced prosthetic that communicates with the mins -
fda
The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California. -
woolly mammoth
DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
