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600
Middle Ages
Herbs were used in medicine to cure headaches -
754
Middle Ages
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754. -
1200
Middle Ages
The most common form of surgery was bloodletting; it was meant to restore the balance of fluids in the body. -
1250
Middle Ages
13th-century surgeon Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. -
1300
Muslim Hospitals
by the 13 century there were scores of hospitals in the muslim worlds -
Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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1315
anatomical text
first example of modern dissection -
Jan 1, 1346
Renisasance
illnesses of the Middle Ages were the plague (the Black Death), leprosy, and Saint Anthony’s fire. From 1346, the plague ravaged Europe -
1377
quarentine
Used to keep people seperate so disease doesnt spread during the black death -
1400
Jacob Felicie
A frech women tried for practicing medicine with no license -
1578
William Harvey
English doctor was the first person to properly describe how the heart pumps around blood -
tuberculosis
an infectious bacterial disease characterized by the growth of nodules (tubercles) in the tissues, especially the lungs. Caused many deaths in this time period -
Renisasance
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Industial Revolution
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Period: to
Modern World
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chemotherapy
Used to help cure cancer -
polio outbreak
infectious disease especially of young children that is caused by the poliovirus -
CAT- scans
Robert S. Ledley invents the cat- scans -
polio vaccines
And the dreaded disease polio was virtually eliminated in 1955 when the Salk_vaccine was approved for public use. -
cloning
The cells had been taken from the udder of a six-year-old ewe and cultured in a lab using microscopic needles, in a method first used in human fertility treatments in the 1970s. After producing a number of normal eggs, scientists implanted them into surrogate ewes; 148 days later one of them gave birth to Dolly. -
Period: to
21st century
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synthetic cells
An artificial cell or minimal cell is an engineered particle that mimics one or many functions of a biological cell. The term does not refer to a specific physical entity, but rather to the idea that certain functions or structures of biological cells can be replaced or supplemented with a synthetic entity. -
Mark Humayun
He created tthe first bionic eye -
new prosthetics
created a product that restores natural feeling and normal walking -
ebola virus
Ebola virus disease (EVD), also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) or simply Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses. -
3-D printing
If you haven’t heard, 3-D printers have quickly become one of the hottest technologies on the market. These printers can be used to create implants and even joints to be used during surgery. 3-D-printed prosthetics are increasingly popular as they are entirely bespoke, the digital functionalities enabling them to match an individual’s measurements down to the millimetre. The allows for unprecedently levels of comfort and mobility.
