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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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SmallPox
The first unarguable description of small happened in Western Europe. Eyewitness accounts describe symptoms of smallpox. -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
He discovered the difference between measles and smallpox. -
Sep 8, 1000
Bloodletting
Bloodletting started being performed in ancient Egypt and after a while bloodletting spread to the Greeks and Romans. -
Sep 7, 1140
Roger of Sicily
He forbade people from practicing medicine without a license, saying that doctors were clearly under some form of regulation. -
Sep 7, 1215
Surgery
Surgeons had very poor knowledge of the human anatomy. Monks had to stop practicing surgery, so they made peasants perform surgery. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 7, 1346
The Black Plague
The plague severely damaged Europe, and the rich and poor alike succumbed with terrifying speed. -
Sep 8, 1492
Typhus
It first cam in Western Europe. The first cases were in Spain in 1490. It was then taken to Italy by Spanish soldiers. -
Sep 8, 1523
Antonio Benivieni
He was an physician who pioneered the use of autopsy. He also wrote a book that is now considered one of the first works in the science of pathology. -
Sep 8, 1528
Paracelsus
He believed that ' God provided a cure' for every disease. With that he started to study inorganic compounds rather than usual herbs and animal substances. -
Sep 8, 1545
The Method of Treatment for Wounds Caused by Firearms
A night after treating many wounds of gunshot with boiling oil a doctor ran out of oil and there still were many uncared wounds that needed healing. -
Invention of the Microscope
A man named Zacharius Jennssen came across a way that would magnify objects -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Louis Pasteur
Louis invented the vaccines for anthrax, rabies, and invented pasteurization. -
Vaccine for Anthrax
Trying to fully prove the spread of anthrax and how it made people or animals sick. Louis Pasteur created the vaccine by using chickens first. -
Rabies Vaccine
It was made to be given to people at increased risk of rabies to protect them if exposed. -
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
He discovered x-rays. He was a German physicist. -
Ronald Ross
He was a British officer who demonstrated that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Described blood compatibility and rejection. Also developing the ABO system of blood typing. -
Blood Transfusion
In 1907, it was the first successful human blood transfusion using the ABO system. -
Stem cells
A "mini liver" , the size of a small coin, is generated by human cord blood stem cells. -
DNA
Scientists have successfully "revived" DNA sequence of a woolly mammoth's complete genome. -
Experimental Surgery
There is a first-time experimental surgery, that was successful, and it will determine the availability for U.S. cancer patients and veterans with injuries to the pelvic regions.
