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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 700
Arabic World Hospitals
Arabic world hospitals emerged as a more secure institution. -
Oct 8, 754
First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad. -
Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and small pox. -
Sep 8, 1200
Antiseptic Method
Surgeon Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method. -
Sep 8, 1231
Medical education standards
Frederick the second promoted a set of laws about medical education standards & license and probably established professionalization of physicians. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1400
Hospitals
Florence had 35 hospitals and donations from the public helped in the making of many other hospitals. -
Apr 15, 1452
Dissecting human bodies
Leonardo Da Vince dissected human bodies and made detailed drawings of everything, to help physicians understand where the organs were in the body & start upon their function. -
Sep 8, 1473
Physicians
The first physicians were often into physics and astronomy. This helped them with medicines. -
Sep 8, 1493
Paracelsus
Paracelsus, discovered that drinking mercury was a cure for the diseases, syphilis. -
Small pox
Smallpox, which severely damaged North & South America in the mid. 17th century. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Typhoid outbreak
Between 1830 and 1836 there were 4 major outbreaks of the disease Typhoid. -
Pain relief
The inhalation of nitrous oxide or chloroform began to be used for pain relief during dental and surgical procedures. -
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale led to a decrease in mortality rates and founder of modern nursing. -
Infection caused by germs
Joseph Lister argued that infection wasn't caused by miamas, but by microbes (germs) in the air. -
Louis Pastuer
Louis Pasteur's first major discoveries was the fact that germs can cause disease. -
Period: to
Modern World
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New treatment
New biological treatment, such as antibiotics were introduced. -
Blood groups A, B, and O
The Austrian immunologist Karl Landsteiner documented the blood groups A, B, and O. -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner identified agglutinates in blood and developed the modern system of classifying blood groups. -
Advanced techniques
Medics and hospital units advanced techniques helped healed massive injuries and controlling diseases. -
Jonas Salk
First Polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk.
