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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between smallpox and measles. -
Sep 2, 1084
England Canterbury
First documented hospital in England Canterbury -
Aug 31, 1123
Hospital
Hospitals were built in London -
Sep 2, 1242
Ventricles of the heart
Ibn an-Nafis suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate -
Sep 2, 1288
Santa Maria Nuova
The hospital of Santa Maria Nuova founded in Florence, it was strictly medica -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Aug 31, 1347
Black Plague
The plague killed 1/3 of the population -
Sep 2, 1540
Blood Letting and Tooth Extractions
English barbers and surgeons united to create The United Barbers-Surgeons Company -
Sep 2, 1540
Cure for syphilis
Paracelsus discovered that drinking mercury was a cure for syphilis -
Sep 2, 1560
Andreas Vesalius
Vesalius dissected human bodies -
Microscope
Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents microscope -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Rene Laennac
Laennac invents stethoscope -
Human Blood
First transfusion of human blood -
Use of ether
First use of ether as an anesthetic. -
Public use of anesthesia
First public use of anesthesia during surgery -
Appendectomy
First successful appendectomy performed in Iowa -
Period: to
Modern World
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Blood Bank
Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank at Cook County Hospital in Chicago -
Rene Favaloro
Surgeon Rene Favaloro performs first coronary bypass operation using patient's vein -
Meningitis
First vaccine found -
HIV
HIV is identified -
Lyme Disease
First vaccine for lyme disease
