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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 700
Medical School
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Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and small pox -
Sep 8, 1000
Surgery is considered a profession.
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Sep 8, 1140
Roger of Sicily
Forbaded anyone from practicing medicine without a liscence. -
Sep 8, 1200
Caduceus
The symbol for medicine. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1300
Health Care for the sick
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Sep 8, 1347
An outbreak of Bubonic Plague broke out in Instanbul.
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Sep 8, 1400
French Woman Jacoba Felicie
Tries to practice medicine but is denied -
Sep 8, 1510
French surgeon Ambroise Pare
Considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology. -
Sep 8, 1578
William Harvey
English medical doctor physicist -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccine for smallpox. -
Code of Hammurbi
Sets out fees for surgeons and punishments for malpractice. -
James Blundell
Performs the first successful transfusion of human blood. -
Emil von Behring
Discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. -
Wilhelm Von Roentgen
Discovered X-Rays. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Dr. Paul Dudley White
America's first cardiologists. -
Edward Mellanby
Discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets. -
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
Performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins. -
Dr. William DeVries
Implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days. -
The FDA
Approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California.
