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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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541
Plague of Justinian
Outbreak of bubonic plague in the Byzantine Empire -
Jan 1, 659
Tooth Fillings
Text shows the first use of a substance for tooth fillings in China -
Jan 1, 754
Pharmacy
The first pharmacy is established in Baghdad -
Jan 1, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and small pox -
Jan 1, 1140
License
Roger of Sicily prohibited the practice of medicine without a license -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Microscopes
The microscope is invented by Zacharius Jannssen allowing us to see microscopic organisms -
William Havery
Discovered that the heart pumped blood around the body and had two beating halves -
William Harvey
An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals is published -
Blood Cells
Blood cells are discovered by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Observes bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Creates the first vaccine for a disease: smallpox -
Human Blood Transfusion
The first successful human blood transfusion is preformed by James Blundell -
The Germ Theory of Disease
is established by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch -
X-Rays
are discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen -
Bubonic Plague
the vaccine for the bubonic plague is developed -
Period: to
Modern World
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Sir Alexander Flemming
discovered penicillin -
Human Heart Transplant
The first human heart transplant is performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard -
Smallpox
Smallpox is eradicated -
Dolly the Sheep
the first clone
