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500
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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1200
Medieval Medicine to treat headaches and aching joints
Sweet smelling herbs such as rose,lavender, sage, & bay treated head pains. A mixture of henbane and hemlock were applied to aching joints. Coriander helped with a fever. -
1200
Dysentery
Was an infection in the intestines resulting in severe diaherria with blood and mucus in the face. Newborns were often born really small because the mother barley ate during the pregnancy. Babies caught Dysentery by drinking water with sewage in it, and were infected with worms. Making them tired a lot. Doctors didn't have a cure at the time, by was praying to God. -
1249
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon invented spectacles. He was an English Philosopher & Franciscan friar who placed an emphasis on empiricism. He discovered many things like, optics,manufacture of gun powder, telescope, eye glass, and etc. -
Dec 22, 1346
Black Death
Black Death known as the Plague is a spread by Bacillus. (Yersina Pestis) It travels from person to person, or through the air, As well as bites through infected fleas and rats. Some symptoms are vomiting fever, chills, cough with blood, etc. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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1543
Andreas Vesalius
Founded Modern Anatomy. Was a physician, and author of one of the most influential books on Human Anatomy. -
Zacharias Janssen
He was a Dutch spectacle maker from Middelburg. He invented the microscope.He put several lenses in a tube. The object of the tube nearly enlarged.His microscope consisted of three draw tubes with lenses in the end. The eyepiece was an advanced compound design.The focus of the hand held microscope was achieved by sliding the draw tube in. -
Bacteria
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers Bacteria.It was originally called Protozoa which is the single celled organism.He sent comprehensive data and detailed drawings of his sightings of bacteria and algae to the Royal Society London. -
Fleas
Fleas were a common problem. Fleas lived in beds,pets, wigs, etc. They used a flea trap. It consisted of a hallow cylindrical tube. It had blood smeared on it to attract the fleas. -
Claudius Aymand
Claudius was a french surgeon. Aymand preformed the first and successful appendectomy. Which is a surgical removal of the vermiform appendix. -
Small Pox Vaccination
Edward Jenner was the inventor for the Small Pox vaccination. As a medical student he discovered that milkmaids who had contracted disease called cowpox which caused a blistering cow's udders didn't catch smallpox. He tested it on an eight year old boy in May and then again in July. It was a successful vaccine. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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James Blundell
James was an innovator and pioneer to practice blood transfusion in humans. He experimented with animals. Started off with a syringe, then got introduced to two interments for transfusion. The impellor and gravitator. -
William T.G. Morton
He discovered anesthetic. In a demonstration he was put a patient to sleep by either inhalation.To extract an infected tooth. Before all of this, he did many tests on animals and himself as well. -
Discovery of X-Rays
Wilhelm Conrad discovered X-Rays. Many people discovered the X-Ray before him, but he is the first one to successfully accomplish it symmetrically. His experiments involved the passing of electric current by gases at a very low pressure. While experimenting he discovered that certain rays were going through tubes. -
Felix Hoffmann
Felix is a German Chemist. He invented aspirin. He was looking for a reliever to help his father's arthritis. Made a discovery of acetylene salicylic acid with acetic acid. -
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Modern World
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Invention of the Band-Aid
Earle Dickinson invented the band-aid. Earle cut up many pieces of gauze and placed them at the intervals on a long piece of tape. Only 3,000 were sold in the first year of making. Now, we use them on a daily basis. -
Alexander Fleming
Alexander discovered Penicillin. He noticed some bacteria he had left in a dish had been killed. -
First Vaccine developed for yellow fever
The yellow fever was a disease that was life threatening. It was created by Max Theiler. His development of the 17D strain of attenuated virus. He also won a nobel prize in Medicine. -
Carl Djerassi
Carl was the creator of birth control. He synthesized Him and two chemist were working in a lab in Mexico City who first synthesized a progestin called norethindrone which became key for the pill.The use of the pill spread widely. -
Dolly the Sheep
Dolly the Sheep is the first ever clone. Cloning from an adult cell is way more difficult than an embryonic cell. They had to find many ways to 'reprogram' the udder cells. Meaning to keep him alive, but to stop growing. They did lots of injections like an unfertilized egg, Dolly then died 6.5 years later from lung disease and severe arthritis. -
Period: to
21 Century
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Face Transplants
Isabelle Dinorie became the first person to ever have a face transplant surgery on the nose,lips,and chin in France. After getting attacked by a dog, but has no memory of what had happened. The procedure was done by Bernard Devaauchelle. -
HPV Vaccine
The most common sexually transmitted infection. About 14 million people get infected each year. This infection can cause many cancers, like cervical and vulvar. -
Bernard Devauchelle
Bernard is the first and successful surgeon to ever do a face transplant. He began his medical studies in 1968. He works in France. His first patient was Isabelle Dinore. -
Heart Disease Deaths
About 630,000 american's die from heart disease each year. Heart diseases cost about $200 billion each year. Some lifestyle choices like diabetes, overweight and obesity, poor diet, etc can lead up to this. -
Anti-Smoking Laws & Campaign's to Reduce Smoking
27 states and the District of Columbia have banned smoking in bars, casinos. It has contributed to heart attacks and many deaths from heart diseases. The Anti-Smoking campaigns have included signs in many workplaces, and public places. In General, smoking is not healthy for you, and for the people around you.
