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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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754
First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad, they were very popular and many drug stores were opened up around the Arabic world. -
1231
Medical Education is taught in Universities
Medieval Universities begin to teach physicians and gradually become the main centers in which medical knowledge is shared. -
1300
Jacoba Felicie
Jacoba Felicie was a French healer who had charges pressed against her by the University of Paris for practicing medicine without a license, despite her not being able to get a license for being a girl. -
1300
Eyeglasses
Nobody is completely sure who invented the eyeglasses but by the end of the 13th-century, eyeglasses were very well known in Italy. -
1300
Cleaning Wounds
Up until the 13th-century medical writers believed some pus should be left in the wounds to aide in the healing, until Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1519
Leonardo Da Vinci
Created over 200 pages of illustrations with notes about the human anatomy -
Ambroise Pare
Helped lay foundations of for modern forensic pathology and surgery. -
Scientific Method
Francis Bacon, and others, started to use the Scientific method. -
Robert Hooke
Was a 17th-century "natural philosopher" who looked through a silver cork in a microscope lens and discovered cells. -
Infections and Epidemics
Smallpox, leprosy and the Black Death was very common. The island of Hispaniola fell from a population of 60,000 to fewer of 600 (just one example). -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Vaccine for Smallpox, Cowpox and chickenpox
Jenner tested his vaccination on an eight year old boy, the boy still had chickenpox but it went away after a couple days and he got an immunity to it. -
First Stethoscope
The first stethoscope was invented in 1816 by a French physician names Rene Theophile Hyancinthe Laennec. -
Robert Koch
Was a German physician and microbiologist, he discovered the causative agent of Bacillus anthracis. -
Anesthetics Invented
The first successful surgical performed with anesthetics. -
Louis Pasteur
Was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist that discovered the principles of vaccination. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Introduced the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, O groups -
Insulin
Insulin was first used to treat diabetes -
Vaccine
The first vaccine for diphtheria was developed -
Penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin -
Percy Lavon Julian
He synthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis -
Human Genome
For the first time the world would read the complete set of human genetic information and discover what roughly all or genes do. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Artificial Intelligence
These range from diagnostic tools that can detect malignant tumors that are invisible to the naked eye, to cognitive computer systems, and etc. -
Smoking
Became illegal to smoke inside of restaurants and some workplaces. -
Vaccine
First vaccine to target a cause for cancer -
American Heart Association sets a decade long goal
Set a goal to reduce the number of coronary health disease and stroke and risk
