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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between Smallpox and Measles -
1010
Avicenna
writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
1249
Spectacles are invented
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1334
Bubonic Plague Starts
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1489
First corpses are dissected
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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1543
Vesalius
publishes findings on human anatomy -
The microscope is invented
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Christopher Wren
Experimenting with canine blood transfusions -
Blood cells are discovered
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Discovery that citrus fruits help to prevent scurvy
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The first Vaccination for Smallpox is created
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Rene Laennec
creates the first stethoscope -
The first successful blood transfusion is preformed
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Louis Pasteur
Identified germs as clause for disease -
The first vaccine for Anthrax is invented
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Karl Landsteiner
Creates a system to divide blood into different categories -
Period: to
Modern World
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Diabetes is treated with insulin
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First vaccine for mumps is created
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Robert S. Ledley
Invented CAT-Scans -
The first vaccine for pneumonia is created
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Period: to
21st Century
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The first artificial heart was implanted in a patient
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Jean-Michel Dubernard
Preforms the first partial-face transplant -
Doctors introduce stem cells and cloned human cells
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Laurent Lantieri
Preforms the first full-face transplant -
The outbreak of the Ebola virus
