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Period: 500 to
Middle ages
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Aug 17, 754
Pharmacy
The first Pharmacy established in Baghdad. -
Aug 17, 910
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
Aug 17, 1050
Europe translations
Europe translated medical books into other languages -
Aug 17, 1084
hospital
first documented hospital in England -
Aug 17, 1260
Louis IX
originally a retreat for the blind, but then became a hospital for eye diseases -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Aug 17, 1315
Mondino De Luzzi
The first public anatomy and dissection -
William Harvey
publishes book explaining how blood is pumped within the body -
Antonj Van Leeuwenhoek
Develops first microscope -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Johan Julius Walbaum
The first time a surgical glove was used -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Advocated the value of washing hands with fingernail scrubbing -
Germ theory
The germ theory was proposed -
sterilization
The practice of boiling everything to sterilize began in 1881 -
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Radiography X-rays invented by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen -
Period: to
Modern World
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steam sterilizer
Marburg, Germany started using steam sterilizers in their labs -
blood transfusion
Landstieners ABO blood typing technique -
diptheria
first vaccine for diptheria -
Typhus
first vaccine for Typhus -
ionizing radiation
another sterilization method -
glutaraldehyde chemical sterilant
approved by the EPA as a sterilant for heat-sensitive tools -
Ozone sterilizer
developed by life support and cleared for marketing
