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500
Benedict of Nursia
founded monastic medicine -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Age
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Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between small pox and measles -
Sep 8, 1020
Ammar ibn 'Ali al-Mawsili
he was the first to perform a successful eye surgery -
Sep 8, 1084
First hospital in England
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Sep 8, 1123
St. Bartholomew's hospital
founded -
Jan 1, 1300
con cave lens spectacles
created to treat myopia -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1546
Girolamo Fracastoro
discovered the epidemic diseases are caused by transferable entities -
Sep 8, 1556
Amato Lusitano
described venous valves -
Sep 8, 1563
tropical medicine
founded -
William Harvey
explained the circulatory system -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Giacomo Pylarini
gave the first smallpox inoculations -
first successful appendectomy
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James Lind
discovered that the juice of citrus fruits prevent scurvy -
smallpox vaccination method devloped
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Rene Laennec
invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
Modern World
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First intrauterine device
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First vaccination for tetanus
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First oral polio vaccine
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Last fatal case of smallpox
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Bruce Reitz
performed the first human combined heart-lung transplant -
Laurent Lantieri
performed the first full face transplant
