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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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659
First Tooth FIllings Used in China
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754
First Pharmacy opened in Baghdad
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1010
Ibn al-Haytham Creates First Syringe
The syringe was used to extract cataracts from eyes. -
1231
First Universities Teach Medicine
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1260
Theodoric Borgognoni Creates First Antiseptic
He soaked bandages in wine as antiseptics and even soaked rags in opium to make patients unconscious. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1352
First Depiction of Eyeglasses
The painting depicts a cardinal writing at his desk. -
1377
First Quarantine Used
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1500
First Successful Cesarean Section
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1530
Girolamo Fracastoro Suggests That Pathogens Come From Outside The Body
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William Harvey is The First To Explain How The Circulatory System Works
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Sir Humphry Davy Creates Nitrous Oxide For Dental Use
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First Successful Blood Transfusion
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Cholera Vaccine is Created
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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen Invents The First X-ray
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Felix Hoffman Creates Asprin
Then at around the same time he also created a drug called diamorphine for a drug company called Bayer who renamed it heroine. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Elliott Joslin Creates Insulin
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The Iron Lung Is Created Saving Polio Victims Lives
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The First Blood Bank Is Introduced
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First Successful Kidney Transplant
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First MRI Scan
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Period: to
21st Century
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Jack Szostak Helps the Human Genome Project Finish
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The First Amputee Controlled a Robotic Limb With Neural Implants
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HPV Vaccine is Introduced
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New Laws Are Introduced To Stop Smoking Indoors
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Luxturna a Blindness Medication Allows Blind People To See Shapes