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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 2, 659
Dental
First use of a tooth filling. -
Aug 31, 754
Pharmacies
The first Pharmacy was established in Baghdad in 754. -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
Sep 2, 1231
Medical education
Frederick the 2nd created a set of laws concerning medical education standards. -
Sep 2, 1288
Hospital Founded
Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova founded in Florence. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 2, 1305
Eyeglasses
An unknown person created eye classes so people could see better. -
Sep 2, 1315
Anatomy and disection
Mondino de Luzzi conducted experiments on the human body. -
Sep 2, 1377
Black Death
Made ships wait 30 or more days until docking so the town wouldn't get infected. -
Sep 2, 1500
Ceaseren Section
First written record of a baby and mother both surviving a c-section. -
Sep 2, 1520
Ambroise Pare
Pioneered the treatment for gunshot wounds -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Chicken pox
The first time the chicken pox vaccination was tested on a person. -
Florence Nightingale
First women to formalize nursing education and awarded Order Of Merit. -
Anesthetic
First demonstration of anesthesia took place in Massachusetts General Hospital. -
Felix Hoffman
Felix Hoffman invented Aspirin called Bayer. -
Period: to
Modern world
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Waling up a person from a coma
Zolpidem was given to a patient who was in a coma and he made a noise for the first time in 5 years. -
Polio
They're were 3,000 cases of polio in India in 2000. -
Jan Scheuermann
Jan was a paralyzed women. Doctors implanted two grids into her brain to control a robotic arm. -
Stem cells
Researchers claim that the have lots of potential to cure diseases and repair damaged tissue. -
Living without a heart
A 14 year old heart transplant failed. She survived 118 days without a heart. -
Welhelm Roentgen
First person to discover x-rays.
