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The study of disease begins
The Greeks were the first to study disease and Hippocrates was named "The Father of Medicine". -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
The study of medical science stopped for over 1,000 years, herbal medicines were used, there were many epidemics -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance (Rebirth of Science)
Accepted the study of the body by disection, medical schools were built, the printing press made books possible and knowledge was shared -
Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals
The book describes how blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart, and then returns to the heart and recirculates. -
Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox
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René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
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Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic
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Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman doctor
first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightengale to pursue nursing -
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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Louis Pasteur created the first vaccine for rabies
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Wilhelm Roentgen deicovered x-rays
this allowed doctors to see inside the body -
Marie Curie isolated radium
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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Sir Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine
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Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker.
A pacemaker controls irregular heartbeat -
First vaccine for chicken pox.
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Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery
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First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.
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W.H.O. (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated
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HIV is identified
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS -
Dolly the sheep becomes the first mamal cloned from an adult cell
dies in 2003 -
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
