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Veins and arteries
Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between measles and small pox. -
Sep 9, 1000
Surgery
Surgery is considered a profession. -
Sep 9, 1010
Book of healing
Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
Sep 9, 1249
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon invents spectacles. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renissance
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Aug 31, 1300
Islamic hospitals.
Healthcare for the sick. -
Sep 9, 1348
Black Death
Killed 30-60% or Europe's population. -
Aug 31, 1400
Jacoba Felicie.
Frenchwoman tries to practice medicine, but is denied. -
Herbalst Li Shizhen
Describes the use of qing hao for malaria fevers. -
William Harvey
Made a huge break through by studying dogs showing that the heart pumps blood around the body and that the heart had two distinct beating halves. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas. -
James Lind
James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy -
Edward Jenner
Found out that if you catch cow pox then you are immune to small pox. -
Claudius Aymand
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy -
Aspirin
Aspirin was invented in the industrial revolution. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered. -
People's republic of chine
used plants as new medical drugs. -
X-ray
Protein data bank of x-ray crystal structures established with 12 structures. -
Cure of malaria
Research group discovered the cure of malaria -
Genes
First gene therepy experiment for humans.
