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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 6, 750
Root of Disease
Medical theory was based on the Greek concept of the the four concepts earth, air, fire, and water. -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between small pox and measles -
Sep 6, 1020
Eye surgery
Ammar ibn 'ali al-mawsili preformed first successful surgery to remove cataract. -
Sep 6, 1084
First Hospital
First hospital to be documented was in 1084 England, Canterbury. -
Sep 6, 1242
Ventricles of the heart
Ibn an-Nafis suggest that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and culinary circulation -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 7, 1489
Corpses
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses -
William Harvey
Publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals -
Canine blood transfusion
Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusion -
Blood Cells
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells -
Use of microscope
Bacteria was first observed with a microscope beginning the field of microbiology. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Appendectomy
Claudius Aymand performs first successful appendectomy. -
René Laënnec
Invents the stethoscope. -
Transfusion of blood
James Blundell preforms the first successful transfusion on human blood -
Nitrous Oxide
Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic -
Elizabeth Blackwell
First women to receive a medical degree -
Period: to
Modern World
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Insulin
First to treat diabetes. -
Diphtheria.
First vaccine of diphtheria -
Pertussis
First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough). -
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
Performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins. -
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Preformed first human heart transplant
