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500
Veins and arteries
The difference between veins and arteries is discovered. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and small pox. -
Jan 1, 910
Smallpox
The discovery and distinction of smallpox. -
Jan 1, 1000
Surgery is a profession
People now specialize and get paid for being a surgeon which allows for more in depth study. -
Jan 1, 1249
Roger Bacon
Invents spectacles. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1347
Bubonic plague
A plague that devastated Europe and wiped out 90% of the population in some areas. -
Jan 1, 1490
Leonardo da Vinci
He made the Vetruvian Man. -
Jan 1, 1550
Andreas Vesalius
Dissected the human body to correct the conceptions from ancient times -
Microscope
Microscope was made to help see small bacteria. -
William Harvy
First to argue that blood circulates around the body. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Discovered the small pox vaccine. -
Stethoscope
Stethoscope invented for listening to lungs and heart. -
Anesthetic
A dentist discovers the first anesthetic. -
Louis Pasteur
Invented pasteurization to prevent organisms causing. -
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Insulin
Insulin first used to treat diabetes. -
Purtussis
Firtst vaccines for pertussis -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin (big deal). -
HIV
The virus that causes aids is identified. -
Cloning
The first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
