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2600 BCE
First Physician
The Egyptian Imhotep describes the diagnosis and treatment of 200 diseases -
500 BCE
Alcmaeon of croton
Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries -
460 BCE
Hippocrates
Birth of Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin -
280 BCE
the brain
Herophilus studies the nervous system -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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circulation of blood
the blood circulates in the body -
smallpox
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Citrus fruits
a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. -
vaccine
introduces vaccination against smallpox -
Doctor
Rene L invents the stethoscope -
Human blood
British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood -
pain free Dentistry
Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic -
Theory germ
Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease. -
Aspirin
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin -
Period: to
Modern World
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human blood types
Karl Landsteiner discovers the existence of different human blood types -
Electrocardiography
Willem Einthoven discovers electrocardiography (ECG/EKG -
Vitamins
Frederick Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets -
sleeping sickness
Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness -
diabete
Insulin first used to treat diabete -
Diphtheria
First vaccine for Diphtheria -
Period: to
21st Century
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Marescuax
Telesurgery - Jacques Marescaux -
HPV
First HPV vaccine approved -
rotavirus
Second rotavirus vaccine approved (first was withdrawn) -
Bionic eye
Visual prosthetic (bionic eye) Argus II -
Face Transplant
Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant
