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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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820
Benedictine hospital founded
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1010
Avicenna writes The Book of Healing & The Canon of Medicine
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1204
Innocent III organized the hospital of Santo Spirito at Rome
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Jan 1, 1249
Roger Bacon invents glasses
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1300
concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1347
The Black Death began in Europe
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Jan 1, 1400
Women not allowed to practice medicine
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Jan 1, 1489
Church allowed dissection of criminals (sometimes while alive)
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Zacharius Janssen invents the microscope
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William Harvey studied dying dogs and showed that the heart pumped blood around the body
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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James Lind publishes his Treatise of Scurvy
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Typhoid Outbreaks
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Cholera struck England killing 30,000 people
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John Collins Warren provides first public demonstration of anesthesia in surgery
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Elizabeth Blackwell first women to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
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Period: to
Modern World
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Willem Einthoven invented the first practical electrocardiogram
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs first human heart transplant
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Doctors recorded last fatal case of smallpox
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First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.
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Dolly the sheep becomes first mammal cloned from an adult cell
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First draft of human genome is announced
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Period: to
21st Century
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The FDA announced an approval of Atripla Tablets
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Scientists figure how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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development of the first advanced-movement prosthetic leg
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scientists discovered prevention & treatment for Osteoarthritis
