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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Dec 31, 659
Dental Care
Medicine from medieval China was to creation of amalgams for dental procedures. The first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin. -
Dec 31, 754
pharmacies
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754 -
Dec 31, 825
Rhazes
Rhazes discovered the difference between measles and smallpox's. -
Dec 31, 1004
Ophthalmology and optics
People used to believe that humans could see things through invisible beams of light that were being emanated from the eyes. t Ibn al-Haytham, came up with a new explanation for vision through his research on optics and the anatomy of the eye. -
Dec 31, 1201
Cleaning Wounds
Doctors in the middle ages believed that during surgery some pus should remain in the wounds, thinking that this would aid in its healing. This idea remained widespread until the 13th-century surgeon Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. He even had bandages pre-soaked in wine as a form of disinfectant. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Dec 31, 1347
The Black Plague
The Black Plague began in 1347 and ended in 1350. 25 million people were killed. -
Dec 31, 1356
Mercury
They treated syphilis with an unguentum of mercury. -
Dec 31, 1533
Ambroise Paré
Paré was the inventor of surgical instruments. -
Dec 31, 1548
Anto Van Lecuwenhole
He discovered blood cells -
Zacharus Anssen
Anssen invented the microscope -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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René Laënnec
In 1815 René invented the stethoscope, a trumpet-shaped wooden tube, to examine a very fat woman whose heart he could not hear by pressing his ear to her chest. -
Germs
Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur establish the germ theory of disease -
Rabies
First vaccination development for Rabies -
Contact Lenses
First contact lenses development. -
Period: to
Modern World
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August von Wasserman
German researcher August von Wasserman introduces diagnostic test for syphilis. -
Alois Alzheimer
In 1906 Alois Alzheimer discovered dementia. It was later named Alzheimer because of all of the hard work Alois did to find out about this mental illness. Alois figured it out after studying a 51 year old woman for several years. -
Insulin
Insulin first used to treat diabetes. -
Whooping Cough
First vaccination for whooping cough -
Yellow Fever
First vaccination development for yellow fever
