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500
Veins and Arteries
The difference between veins and arteries is made. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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May 10, 700
Medical School
They built and started a medical school -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Discovered differences between small pox and measles -
Mar 24, 1000
Surgery
They considered surgery as a profession. -
Sep 12, 1200
Caduceus
The symbol for medicine -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 12, 1300
Health Care
They stared having health care for the sick people. -
Jul 10, 1347
Bubonic Plague (Black death)
Outbreak of bubonic plague broke out in Istanbul. Now we know that bubonic plague is a form of contagious and fatal pneumonia. -
Sep 12, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
A french woman that tried to practice medicine but was denied. -
Apr 14, 1452
Andreas Vesalius and Leonardo Da Vinci
Dissected human bodies and made drawings of everything to help physicians understand where the organs were in the body and start to learn about their function. -
Sep 12, 1510
Ambroise Para
A French surgeon who restored and reformed the surgical art through his practice. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
They discovered a vaccine for smallpox -
Code of Hammurbi
set fees for surgeons -
James Blundell
Performed the first successful transfusion of human blood -
Emil Von Behring
discovered diphtheria antitoxin -
Wilhelm Von Roentgen
Discovered X-Rays -
Period: to
Modern World
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Dr. Paul Dudley White
America's first cardiologist. -
Edward Mellanby
Discovered vitamin D -
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
Performed the first kidney transplant between identical twins. -
Dr. William DeVries
Implants an artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days. -
The FDA
Approved the first human trials of a Zika vaccine.
