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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Determined the difference between small pox and measles -
1000
Bloodletting
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1140
Roger Of Sicily
He made it to where no one can practice medicine without a license. -
1249
Spectacles
Helped people with bad vision -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Leonardo Da Vinci
Was the person who made dissecting dead human bodies a thing -
Zacharius Jannssen
Invented first telescope -
Printing Press
Allowed for publications of medical discoveries -
Circulatory system
William Harvey discovered the circulatory system and explained how it acted like a muscle and it contracted. -
Reflective Microscope
Allowed to study microorganism -
Smallpox Inoculations
Given to public to prevent smallpox -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Vaccine
First vaccine to be used -
Louis Pasteur
Identifies germs as cause of disease. -
Anthrax Vaccine
Made by Louis Pasteur -
Bubonic Pleague Vaccine
The first vaccine developed for the Bubonic Pleague. -
Felix Hoffman
Made asprin -
Period: to
Modern World
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Band-Aid
Helped with bleeding -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered Penicillin -
HIV
Identified as a Virus -
Gertrude Elion
Patented a leukemia- fighting drug. -
First human heart tranplant
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Period: to
21st Century
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Face Transplant
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Cancer Vaccine
First vaccine to target the cause of cancer. -
Smoking
No smoke laws and campaigns reduce public smoking to reduce death and failure to the lungs -
Bionic Limbs
Advanced prosthetic leg that communicates with the users mind -
Hematopoietic Stem Cells
extending the possibility of transplantation to patients for whom a donor cannot be identified. -
Nora
Shows that addiction is a disease and not a moral failure
