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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 2, 659
Tooth Fillings
First recorded date for using substance (almagams) for tooth fillings -
Aug 31, 754
Baghdad
The first pharmacy was established here -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between small pox and measles -
Aug 31, 1000
Surgery
When it became considered a profession -
Sep 2, 1268
Roger Bacon
Invented eyeglasses for optical purposes -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 2, 1315
Mondino de Luzzi
Conducted public dissection and wrote first true anatomical text -
Sep 2, 1340
Anatomy
the university in Montpellier in France included the study of anatomy -
Aug 31, 1347
Bubonic plague
This broke out all over Istanbul, and killed millions -
Sep 2, 1377
Quarantine
Concept of keeping groups of people away from others to not spread disease started -
Sep 2, 1500
Cesarean Section
First recorded C-section was successful -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Philip Syng Physick
First man to successfully perform a blood transfusion -
Smallpox
Vaccination was made and tested on a milkmaid's son -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Dr. William Morton
Boston dentist, demonstrated how to use anesthetic during tooth extraction -
Elizabeth Blackwell
First female to receive a medical degree -
Cholera
First vaccination for cholera was invented -
Period: to
Modern World
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Vaccine
First vaccine for influenza is made -
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
South African heart surgeon who performs first human heart transplant -
WHO
Stands for World Health Organization, announces smallpox was destroyed completely -
AIDS virus
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified -
Dolly
Dolly the sheep is first mammal cloned from adult cell
