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500
Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
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500
Cnidos medical school; also one at Cos
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500
Bian Que becomes the earliest physician known to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1200
Middle Ages
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630
Paul of Aegina
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910
Rhazes
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissiance
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1502
Antonio Benivieni, science of pathology
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Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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William Harvey
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Sir Christopher Wren first to inject medicine to animal bladder and experiment with blood transfusion
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek refines microsvope and descovers blood cells
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Period: to
Industrial revolution
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industrial revolution
James Lind discovers fruit prevents scurvy. -
Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus.
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Dominique Jean Larrey, Surgeon to Napoleon
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Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.
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First vaccine for cholera
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Period: to
modern world
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine for tuberculosis.
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Sir Alexander Fleming discoverers penicillin.
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Paul Zoll develops the first peacemaker.
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Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins.
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First draft of human genome is announced to the public.
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Joe Crameri
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Period: to
21st century
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Dolly the sheep was the first cloned animal
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First HPV vaccine approved
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Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant.
