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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
In 65 A.D., Dioscorides, a Greek, wrote his Materia Medica (13.152.6). This was a practical text dealing with the medicinal use of more than 600 plants.
Additionally, people might have gone to the local witch or to the apothecary for healing potions.
Surgery such as amputations, cauterization, removal of cataracts, dental extractions.
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
Ambroise Paré was a French surgeon he died in 1536.
The development of autopsy allowed society to use it for forensic and health purposes. In the early 1300s.
Doctors began doing autopsies on their private patients during the fifteenth century.
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
In 1747 James Lind, a Scottish Naval surgeon discovered that citrus plants prevent scurvy.
British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood in 1818.
In 1882 was the first vaccine for rabies.
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Period: to
Modern World
1901: Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian biologist and physician, identified the different blood types and classified them into blood groups.
In 1903 a Dutch doctor invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG).
1923–1927: Scientists discovered and used the first vaccines for diphtheria.
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21st Century
In 2000, scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public.
2001 The first telesurgery was performed by Jacques Marescaux.
2006 First HPV vaccine approved.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_medicine_and_medical_technology