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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 754
First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy was opened in Baghdad which caught popularity and then spread to Europe -
Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
Discovers the difference between smallpox and measles. -
Sep 8, 1021
Ibn-Haytham
Wrote a book called"Book of Optics" about the anatomy and how the eyes sees that would be considered one of the most important discoveries for many years -
Sep 8, 1231
Medical Education in Univerity's
In Europe Frederick II promoted the idea of laws making standards about medical training, which led to higher education about the medical field, though not immediate. -
Sep 8, 1240
Theodoric Borgognoni
He pioneered the idea of cleaning wounds during surgery and also anesthetics. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1316
Mondino De Luzzi
He performed the first public dissection of a cadaver. -
Sep 8, 1353
The Black Death
In six years 25 million people died in Europe from the sickness. -
Sep 8, 1377
Quarantine
The idea of quarantines came from when the black death was tearing through Europe. -
Sep 8, 1556
Girolamo Fracastoro
He proposed the idea that sickness comes form pathogens outside the body. -
Leonardo De Vinchi
He studied human corpses and drew up over 200 pages of research and drawlings, said to be first to research biomechanics -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Anthony Jenner
Created the first known vaccine for smallpox and pionered the idea of vaccines. -
Rene Laennec
She invented the first stethoscope to hear peoples hearts. -
Anesthetic
The first public demonstration of ether anesthetic in Massachusetts General Hospital. -
Discovery of the X-ray
By German Physicist Wilheim Conrad Roentgen and wasn't wildly accepted at time. -
Felix Hoffman
The German chemist got juice from a willow tree and used it to invent Aspirin. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Came up with the idea to separate the blood types into A,B,AB, and O. -
Insulin
Insulin was used for the first time to treat diabetes. -
SmalPox Eradicated
Smallpox was fully eradicated and is no longer a serious threat. -
Human Genome Project
Scientists decoded human DNA and discovered how we tick. -
Alexander Fleming
He discovered Penicillin by accident from mold on a plate repelling bacteria.
