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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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541
Plague of Justinian
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541
Plague of Emmaus
Occured in Isreal -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles. -
Sep 2, 1010
Avicenna
Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
Sep 2, 1249
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon invents spectacles -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Aug 31, 1300
Islamic Hospitals
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick -
Aug 31, 1400
Jacoba Felicie Denied
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied -
Scientific Method Begins
The use of the scientific method begins which helps scientist and doctors alike to problem solve. Doctors use it to help address unknown illnesses. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke develops the reflective microscope -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
Giacomo Pylarini
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Contact Lenses are Developed
First contact lenses developed -
Bubonic Plague Vaccine
First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague -
Felix Hoffman
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin -
Period: to
Modern World
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Bernard Fantus
Bernard Fantus pioneers the use the first blood bank in Chicago -
Alec Jeffreys
Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method -
Hepatitis A Vaccine
First vaccine developed for hepatitis A. -
Dolly is Cloned
Dolly the sheep becomes first ever to be cloned -
Cancer Targeting Vaccine
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
