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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
discovered the difference between measles and small pox -
Sep 8, 1010
Books
Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Cannon of Medicine -
Sep 8, 1020
First Eye Surgery
Amman ibn 'Ali al-Mawsili preformed the first successful eye surgery. Using a needle removing a cataract. -
Sep 8, 1084
Hospital England
First documented hospital in England Canterbury -
Sep 8, 1249
Roger Bacon
Invents spectates -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 6, 1300
Islamic Hospitals
provided health care for the sick -
Sep 6, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
Frenchwoman who tried to practice medicine but was denied. -
Scientific Method
the use of the scientific method begins -
Blood Transfusion
Sir. Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusion -
Bacteria
Antoine Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Smallpox Inoculation
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculation -
Edward Jenner
discovered the first vaccination -
Ignaz Semmelweis
shows the importance of handwashing -
John Snow
stopped the outbreak of cholera -
Stethoscope
Rene Laennec invents the first stethoscope -
Period: to
Modern World
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Bubonic Plague
the bubonic plague hits San Fransico -
Penicillian
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin -
CAT-Scan
Robert S. Ledly invents the CAT-Scan -
Willem J. Kolff
Invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine -
First Clone
Dolly the sheep was the first clone
