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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
Persian doctor who discovered the difference between small pox and measles. -
Jul 3, 1010
Book of Healing
Avicenna develops The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
Mar 12, 1100
Autopsies
Dissections start to become more popular -
Jul 4, 1200
Hospitals
Hospitals start to become built more often allowing a place to research medicine -
Dec 24, 1249
Spectacles Invented
Rodger Bacon invents spectacles which are eyeglasses -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1489
Leodardo da Vinci
He dissects a corpse -
Microscope
Zacharius Jannssen invents the first microscope -
William Harvey
Writes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and Blood of the Animals allowing a basis on research for blood vessels, arteries, and heart. -
Blood Cells Discovered
Blood cells are discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek -
Bacteria Observed
Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Giacomo Pylarini
He gave the first small pox inoculation -
First Appendectomy
Claudius Aymand does the first successful removal of the appendix -
First Human Blood Transfusion
James Blundell operates the first successful blood transfusion done on a human -
Louis Pasteur
He discovers germs as a cause for a disease -
Rabies
First vaccine created for rabies by Louis Pasteur -
Period: to
Modern World
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Classifying Blood
Karl Landsteiner develops a way to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Diabetes
Insulin is used to treat diabetes -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin -
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Doctor who performed the first human heart transplant -
CAT-Scans
Developed by Robert S. Ledley and it is a x ray image
