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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 2, 820
Benedictine Hospital
founded -
Sep 2, 870
Encyclopedia of medicine
written in Arabic -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
discovered differnce between smallpox and measles -
Sep 2, 1000
Astrology in medicine
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Sep 2, 1084
First documented hospital in England
founded -
Sep 2, 1095
Congregation of of the Antoines
founded to treat "St.Anthony's fire" -
Sep 2, 1114
Medieval medicine
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Aug 31, 1300
Islamic hopitals
health care for the sick -
Aug 31, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
tries to practice medicine but is denied -
Sep 2, 1400
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Sep 2, 1450
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Scientific method
Use of scientific method begins -
Robert Hooke
invents reflective telescope -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
describes bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon
uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
Industrial revolution medicine
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Edward Jenner
discovered first vaccination -
Humphry Davy
discovers anesthetic property of nitrous oxide -
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Louis Pasteur
pasteurization of milk -
Joseph Lister
practice of medical asepsis -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
discovers there are different blood types -
Alois Alzheimer
discovers first case of Alzheimers -
Defibrillator
invented -
Paul Winchell
invents artificial heart -
Laurent Lantieri
performs first ever full face transplant -
Modern Era
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Modern Era image
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