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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark And Middle Ages
The Study of Medicine was stopped for 1,000 years and medicine was only practiced in monasteries. The use of herbal medicine was seen and there were many epidemics like the plague. -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
The rebirth of Science happend and Medical Schools were built. Also, the study of the body by dissection was allowed. -
Period: Jan 1, 1452 to Jan 1, 1519
Leonardo Davinci
Leonardo Davinci disected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings tht helped people understand the systems of the human body. -
William Harvey
William Harvey describes the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart. -
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Gabriel Fahrenheit created teh first mercury thermometer. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner created the Vaccine for Smallpox accidently while trying to come up with a vaccine to cure cowpox. -
James Blundell
James Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion on humans. -
Rene Laennec
Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope. -
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Gregory Mendel
Gregory Medel established principles of heredity and dominant/recessive patterns in peas. -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis encouraged physicians to wash hands after performing autopsies and before delivering babies. -
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud studied the effects of teh unconscious mind on teh body. His studies are the basis of psychology and psychiatry. He stated that the mind adn body work together. -
Florence Nightangle
Florence Nightangle is known as the mother of nursing. She created and opened the Nightingale School and home for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital in London. -
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister was the first docotr to use an antiseptic and disinfectants during surgery to prevent infections. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton established the American Red Cross. -
Louis Pasteur
He developed the rabies vaccine and proved that microorganisms caused disease, He also discovered that heating milk prevents bacteria growth. -
Wihelm Roentgen
Wihelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and this allowed doctors to see internal injuries in the human body. -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie isolated radium and she eventually died from radiation. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, the first anitbiotic. This is consider to be the greatest discovery of the 20th century. -
Albert Sabin
Albert Sabin develops the oral polio vaccine that was more effective than Jonas Salk polio vaccine. -
Jonas Salk
He developed the polio Vaccine using dead polio virus. -
James Hardy
James Hardy pefroed the first lung transplant on a human. -
Christian Barnard
Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery that was a success. -
Test Tube Baby
The first human test tube baby was born. Her name is Louise Brown. -
Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering lead to the development of vaccines against hepatitis, herpes, and the chicken pox. -
Tissue Cloneing
Dolly the sheep was cloned.
