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500
Veins
Alcmaeon of croton distinguished the first vein from the arteries. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Aug 31, 600
First surgery
Shushruta Samhita was the first surgeon to preform plastic surgical operations. -
Sep 2, 820
First hospital
In 820 the benedictine hospital was founded and the school of Salerno would grow around it. -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and chickpox -
Sep 2, 1010
Avicenna
Writes the book of healing and Canon of Medicine -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 2, 1300
Medicine
concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy. -
Sep 7, 1300
Myopia
Concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy. -
Sep 7, 1518
School
The college of physicians was founded now know as Royal College of Physicians of London -
Sep 2, 1559
Realdo Colombo
He described the circulation of blood through the lungs in detail. -
Gunshot Wounds
Ambroise Pare invented the treatment of gunshot wounds. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Humphry Davy
He discovered the anesthetic of nitrous oxide -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Surgery
The first painless surgery took place with general anesthetic -
Vaccine
The first vaccine for rabies was developed. -
Welhelm Conrad
He discovered the medical use of x-rays in medical imaging -
Period: to
Modern World
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Alois Alzheimer
Identifies the first case which is known as Alzheimer disease -
Tuberculosis
The first vaccine for Tuberculosis was given. -
Surgery
The first implant of intraocular lens by , Sir Harold Ridley -
Joseph Murray
performs the first human kidney transplant (on identical twins) -
James Hardy
Performs the first human lung transplant
