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500
Bian Que
Became the earliest physician known to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis. -
Period: 500 to Dec 11, 1500
The Middle Ages
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754
Pharmacy
The first pharmacy to be established was in Baghdad. -
910
Smallpox
Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox -
1242
Ibn an-Nafis
Suggested that the left and right ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation. -
1315
Mondino de Luzzi
Conducted a public dissection for his students and spectators. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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1508
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus started his own celestial model which contained the Sun rather than Earth in the center of the universe. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered blood cells -
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Invented the first mercury thermometer, which is still used to this very day. -
James Lind
Publishes his book, "Treatise of the Scurvy", stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. -
Pennsylvania Hospital
The Nations first hospital, "to care for the sick, poor and the insane running who were wandering the streets of Pennsylvania."
- Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Blood Transfusion
British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood. -
Florence Nightingale
Worked to formalize nursing education, founded modern nursing -
Huntington's Disease
Was first recognized as an inherited disorder. -
Rabies
First vaccine developed for rabies -
First Electric Hearing Aid
Created by Miller Reese Hutchinson, was made out of a carbon transmitter so it could be portable. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Elizabeth Garret Anderson
Became the first female doctor; co-founder of London School of Medicine for Women -
Health Care
The price of health care begins to increase, making it difficult for the middle class to afford. -
Percy Lavon Julian
Synthesized the medicines physostigme and glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis. -
Christiaan Barnard
Professor Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky who died 18 days later from pnemonia. -
CS-3000
The first automated blood and cell separator. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Bio-Artificial Liver
Dr. Kenneth Matsumara and Alin Foundation invented the artificial liver by designing a device that utilizes animal liver cells. -
First Telesurgery
Was performed by Jacques Marescaux -
Cancer
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer. -
Liver Grown from What?!
First human liver that was grown from stem cells in Japan. -
Ebola Outbreak
The outbreak in West Africa was the largest in history, known to have affected 28,616 and killing 11,310.
