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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle ages
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Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between small pox and measles -
Sep 6, 1000
Surgery is considered a profession
This is important because now people who perform surgeries can now be paid and specialized in their craft. -
Sep 2, 1010
Avicenna
The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
Sep 2, 1249
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon invented the spectacles -
Sep 6, 1250
The first magnifying glass was constructed
Roger Bacon constructed the first magnifying glass. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 6, 1340
The Black Death (bubonic plaque)
Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents. Estimated deaths were 75-200 people. -
Aug 31, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
Tries to practice medicine, bur is denied -
Sep 2, 1489
Leonardo da Vinci
He dissects corpses -
Zacharias Janssen
Zacharias Janssen invented the microscope -
The method of tying arteries after amputations to stop the loss of blood was introduced
Ambroise Pare` was an army surgeon and he learned to do this by working with bodies -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Discovered first vaccination -
Invention of the stethoscope
René Laënnec - a french physican, invented the stethoscope -
First successful use of anesthesia
With Dr. Morton's tenacity driven by enthusiasm and discovery, he and renowned surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, John Collins Warren made history -
Elizabeth Blackwell
First woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York -
John Snow
stops outbreak of chlorea -
Period: to
Modern World
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First vaccine for tetanus.
Tetanus - acute infectious disease of the central nervous system caused by the toxins of Clostridium tetani -
Bernard Fantus
Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank at cook county hospital in Chicago. -
A method is developed to produce usable form of penicillin
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain develop method to produce usable form of penicillin -
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
First vaccine was made to target a cause of cancer -
Discovery of how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
