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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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754
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad
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910
Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
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1010
Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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1352
The earliest depiction of a person wearing glasses
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1489
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals
which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria.
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The first smallpox inoculations
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The first successful appendectomy
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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The anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide was discoved
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The first successful transfusion of human blood
James Blundell performed
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The first woman to gain a medical degree
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York.
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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease
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First contact lenses developed
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Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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Period: to
Modern World
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First vaccine developed for diphtheria.
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First vaccine developed for yellow fever
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Bernard Fantus pioneers the use the first blood bank in Chicago
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The first paper on medical ultrasonics - ultrasound published
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Period: to
21st Century
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Jean-Michel Dubernard performed the first partial face transplant.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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First HPV vaccine approved.
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The visual prosthetic (bionic eye) Argus II.
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The first human liver was grown from stem cells in Japan.
