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500
Alcmaeon of croton distiguished veins from arteries.
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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659
One of the most important contributions to medicine from medieval China was to creation of amalgams for dental procedures.
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754
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754.
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910
Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
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1010
Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1315
Many historians have believed that knowledge about anatomy stagnated in the Middle Ages.
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1352
invented eyeglasses to help correct vision
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1377
to keep groups of people apart so that disease could not spread
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1489
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
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1500
around the year 1500 we have the first written record of having both a mother and baby surviving a cesarean section.
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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First vaccine developed for anthrax by Louis Pasteur
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First vaccine for developed for rabies
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First contact lenses developed
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Period: to
Modern World
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Edward Mellanby discovers that lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets
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Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid
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First vaccine developed for diphtheria.
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First vaccine developed for whooping cough
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First vaccine developed for influenza
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Heart Disease Deaths Drop by 40 Percent
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Period: to
21st Century
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HIV
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Human Genome Discoveries Reach the Bedside
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Minimally Invasive and Robotic Techniques Revolutionize Surgery
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Anti-Smoking laws and Campaigns Reduce Public Smoking
