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500
Alcmaeon
distinguished veins from arteries -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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542
Lyon, France
A hospital called Hotel-~Dieu is founded -
900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and small box -
1204
Innocent lll
organized the hospital of Santo Spirito at Rome inspiring others all over Europe -
1288
Santa Maria Nuova
The hospital of Santa Maria Nuova founded in Florence, it was strictly medical -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Leonardo da Vinci
dissects corpses -
1543
Vesalius
publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani -
Sir Christopher Wren
experiments with canine blood transfusions -
Reflective Microscope
It allowed the study of microorganisms like bacteria -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
discovers blood cells -
Giacomo Pylarini
gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand
performs the first successful appendectomy -
Edward Jenner
develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease -
Sir Humphry Davy
discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxid -
Rene Laennec
invents the stethoscope -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Edward Mellanby
discovers that lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets -
John Hopps
invented the first cardiac pacemaker -
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
performs the first kidney transplant -
Willem J. Kolff
invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine -
Period: to
21st Century
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Human Genome Project
scientist had completed a drafting sequence of the human genome -
Vaccine
First vaccine to target cause of cancer -
Facial Transplant
a full replacement of person’s face was carried out by 30 surgeons in Spain in 2010. -
3D
researchers from Cornell University printed out a 3D ear that worked like the real thing -
Functional Liver
Japanese researchers succeeded in creating a functional human liver from stem cells
