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500
Alcmaeon Croton
Distinguished veins from aerteries -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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659
Dental Amalgams
First use of a substance for tooth fillings -
754
Pharmacies
First Pharmacy was created in 754 in Baghdad -
900
Rhazes
Discovered between small pox and measles -
1231
Frederick II
Promoted a set of laws concerning medical education -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissnace
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1489
Leonardo da Vinci
Dissects corpses -
1543
Vesaluis
Published finding on human anatomy -
Circulation
The heart is muscle that works as a pump to circulate blood around the body -
Printing press
Allowed for publication of medical discoveries -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand
Performs first successful appendectomy -
Innoculation
Introduce pathogen or antigen into organism -
Rene Laennec
Invents Stethoscope -
Louis Pasteur
Identifies germ as cause of disease -
X-Rays
X-Rays were discovered -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Introduces blood groups A,B,AB, and O -
Earle Dickson
Invented Band Aid -
Tuberculosis
First vaccine for Tb -
Alexander Fleming
Discovers Penicillin -
Yellow fever
First vaccine for Yellow fever -
Period: to
21st Century
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Human Genome
Completed a draft sequencing of the human genome -
Stem Cell
Can be programmed to be any cell in the body -
HPV vaccine
First human papillomavirus vaccine -
Cancer
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
Thomas Manning
First man to receive a penis transplant
