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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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902
Rhazes
Identified smallpox -
1010
The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine were written
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1249
Roger Bacon
Invents spectacles -
1403
Black Death in Venice
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1489
First dissection of corpse
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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1543
Human Anatomy findings were published
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Zacharius Jannssen
Invents the microscope -
Sir Christopher Wren
experiments with canine blood transfusions -
Blood cells were discovered
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Bacteria was observed for the first time
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Edward Jenner
Develops the process of vaccination for smallpox -
Period: to
Industrial
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Rene Laennec
Invents the stethoscope -
First successful transfusion of human blood
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First vaccine developed for anthrax
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First contact lenses developed
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Period: to
Modern World
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Earle Dickson
Invented the Band-Aid -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovery of penicillin -
First vaccine developed for yellow fever
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First vaccine developed for typhus
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First blood bank in Chicago
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The first draft of the human genome
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Period: to
21st Century
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Adaptive Artificial Knee
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials
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Thomas Manning
First to receive a genitalia transplant
