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500
rhazes
discover the differences between smallpox and measles -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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600
birth of galen
considered by many to be the most important contributor to medicine following Hippocrates. -
1300
Brugsch Papyrus
discovered different types of wrtting -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1306
John Arderne
English Surgeon -
1345
Gentile da Foligno
was an Italian professor and doctor of medicine, -
Hearst papyrus
The papyrus contains 18 pages of medical prescriptions written in hieratic Egyptian writing -
Printing Press
allowed for publication of medical discovers -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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anesthetic.
painless surgery because of anesthetic -
Ignaz Semmelweis
discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed" fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
first women to get a medical degree -
Cholera
First vaccine -
Louis Pasteur
discovered the first rabies vaccine -
Louis Pasteur
discovered the first rabies vaccine -
Period: to
Modern World
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Discovering vitamins -
Hans Berger
discover brain waves -
Tuberculosis
First vaccine -
Alexander Fleming
discovered penicillin -
Yellow Fever
first vaccine in 1935 -
mclean
identify four types of brain abnormalities associated with abuse and neglect experienced in childhood. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Circadian Clock
researchers discover a pathway involved in how the brain’s circadian clock sends signals that control the body’s daily rhythms. -
Kidney Failure
accurately predict the risk of kidney failure in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. -
cardiac hypertrophy reversal
Biology, discover that a substance called GDF-11 reverses cardiac hypertrophy, or thickening of the heart muscle, an important contributor to heart failure. -
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Women’s scientists discover a striking subset of T cells that collaborate with other immune cells, a finding that helps illuminate a path toward more precise treatments focused only on the most relevant immune cells.
