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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Nov 5, 900
Rhazes
Discovers the difference between small pox and measles -
Aug 23, 1248
Ibn al-Baitar
wrote botany an pharmacy. -
Feb 13, 1249
Roger Bacon
writes about convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness -
Mar 14, 1288
The hospital of Santa Maria Nuova founded in Florence, it was strictly medical.
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Mar 2, 1300
concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy.
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Nov 14, 1553
Miguel Serveto
describes the circulation of blood through the lungs. -
Zacharius Jannssen
Invented the microscope -
Blood cells are discovered
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The microscope and fashions nearly 500 models.
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James Lind
citrus fruits prevent scurvy -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Rene Laennec
The stethoscope is invented -
First successful transfusion of human blood.
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First women received her medical degree
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
establish the germ theory of disease. -
First vaccine for cholera.
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First vaccine for anthrax
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First vaccine for plague.
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Period: to
Modern World
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First vaccine for meningitis.
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W.H.O. (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated.
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First vaccine for hepatitis
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Dr. William DeVries
Artificial heart transplant -
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
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Period: to
21st Century
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First draft of human genome is announced.
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A "mini-liver"—the size of a small coin—is generated from human cord blood stem cells
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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FDA
approves first human clinical trials. -
The success of an first-time experimental surgery
