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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 754
first pharmacy
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in 754. -
Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and small pox -
Sep 8, 1140
Roger of Sicily
He forbade people from practicing medicine without a license, which shows us that doctors were under regulation. -
Sep 11, 1286
Autopsy
The first record of an autopsy was in 1286 -
Sep 11, 1299
Dissection
Dissection for medical purposes became popular in 1299 -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1300
cleaning wounds
it was used to be believed that pus helped heal wounds until a man named Theodoric Borgognoni came up with the idea of cleaning wounds and stitching them up. He also figured out how to make people fall asleep for surgeries. -
Sep 11, 1346
Black Plague
also known as black death, it killed about 75 to 200 million in Europe. it was believed to be spread by the fleas that live on black rats. -
Sep 8, 1352
First eyeglasses
The first depiction of glasses was in 1352. it was a fresco of a cardinal wearing glasses and writing at a desk. -
Sep 11, 1400
Red Book of Hergest
the book "Red Book of Hergest" was written around this time. it was an important book about herbs. -
William Harvey
He came up with the theory that the heart is a pump that circulates blood around the body through blood vessels. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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small pox vaccination
the first ever small pox vaccination ever given -
stethoscope
Rene Laenec invented the stethoscope -
blood transfusion
the first successful blood transfusion was preformed by James Blundell -
anesthetic
the first anesthetic was given to a man at a public demonstration -
Felix Hoffman
a German chemist who decided that willow was no longer strong enough to relieve pain so he created an alternative -
Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Flemming
Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin -
yellow fever
first vaccine for yellow fever -
heart transplant
first human heart transplant is preformed by Christiaan Barnard -
chicken pox
first vaccine for the chicken pox -
cloning
Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell
