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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 932
Symptoms of smallpox
The first description of the symptoms of smallpox were recorded by the Rhazes, they lived from 860-932 A.D -
Sep 11, 1200
Herbal Remedy
Herbal Remedies were used to treat illnesses. A mother would hand down remedies to their daughters. During The Black Death doctors would stick herbs into their beaks. -
Sep 13, 1200
Medical Books
Many medical books and documents were translated from Arabic. The Middle East had better knowledge of medicine than Europe -
Sep 11, 1248
Doctors
Medieval doctors had little knowledge about basic medicine. They tried treating their patients by balancing the fluids in the body. They would examine their blood, urine, and stools. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 12, 1423
Hospitals
Hospitals were built early as 1423, The City of Venice made the island Santa Maria Di Nazaret into a hospital for isolating contagious patients from the population. -
Sep 13, 1540
Barbers
A group of British surgeons joined together with barbers to form the company of barber-surgeons livery group. -
Sep 12, 1564
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius dissected human bodies ans made detailed drawings from the muscle structure to the heart. This increased the knowledge of human anatomy. -
Dying dogs
Outbreak on studying dying dogs, discovered that blood circulated around the body. This changed medical practice that shows that the harmful practice for bloodletting. -
Church against medicine
Due to the Protestant Reformation of the Roman Catholic Church. The church was in charge of doctors and their work, keeping them from doing human dissections. They opposed to anything that was against The Bible -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Vaccination of small pox
Edward Jenner experimented with chicken pox before. He first used his vaccination on a little boy who was sick with chicken pox. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was the first to discover that germs were carriers of disease. He was a french chemist and microbiologist. He's known for this breakthroughs in the purposes and preventions of maladies. -
Use of Chlroloform
James Simpson, professor at Edinburgh University begin using chloroform for operations. It helped women during childbirth -
Sanitation
Rubber gloves were first used in surgery in 1890 -
Typhoid Vaccination
The first vaccination of typhoid was created by Almroth Wright. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Treat Syphilis
Discovered salvarsan, a drug use to treat syphilis. -
Insulin
Insulin was first used to treat a patient in 1922. -
Chemotherapy
First effective cancer chemotherapy drug, nitrogen mustard,they discovered that the blood of soldiers who had been exposed to nitrogen mustard had low levels of white cells. -
CAT scans
CAT, Computerized Axial Scanning was first introduced. -
Ebola
Outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. A rare and deadly diease caused by infection with a Ebola virus specie. -
Humourism
Humourism is believed that body fluids is driven to good human health.You must have those in balance to keep a good health. Humours were linked to seasons,organs, temper and elements.
