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460 BCE
the middle ages
Birth of Hippocrates, also considered the father of medicine -
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The middle Ages
Birth of Galen, he was a physician to the gladiators and personal physician to several emperors. -
Period: 460 to Dec 31, 1300
The Middle Ages
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864
Middle Ages
rubbing alcohol discovered by Mohammad ibn Zakari Razi -
910
The middle Ages
Rhazes is the first to identify smallpox, as distinguished from measles, and to suggest blood as the cause of infectious disease. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
The Renaissance
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The Renaissance
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope -
The Renaissance
Realdo Columbo (William Harvey) confirmed the pulmonary circulation on vivisection. -
The Renaissance
William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals, describing how blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart, and then returns to the heart and recirculates. -
The Renaissance
English architect Sir Christopher Wren is the first to administer medications intravenously by means of an animal bladder attached to a sharpened quill. -
The Renaissance
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, discovers blood cells and observes animal and plant tissues and microorganisms. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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The industrial Revolution
James Lind , a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. -
The industrial Revolution
Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus. -
The industrial Revolution
Sir Humphry Davy announces the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide, although dentists do not begin using the gas as an anesthetic for almost 45 years. -
The industrial Revolution
Louis Pasteur discovered a vaccine for rabies. -
The industrial Revolution
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin. -
Period: to
The Modern World
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Modern World
Austrian-American Karl Landsteiner describes blood compatibility and rejection. -
Modern World
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health. -
Modern World
First successful human blood transfusion using Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique. -
Modern World
Isopropyl alcohol was now invented -
Modern World
Insulin first used to treat diabetes. -
21st Century
First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three years later. -
Period: to
The 21st century
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21st Century
A "mini-liver"—the size of a small coin—is generated from human cord blood stem cells by doctors at Newcastle University, U.K. -
21st Century
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
21st Century
The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. -
21st Century
In March, DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant.