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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 910
Rhazes identifies smallpox
Persian physician properly identifies smallpox for the first time -
1010
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna wrote another book called The Canon of Medicine -
1010
Book of Healing
Avicenna a Persian Muslim physician wrote Book of Healing -
1100
Medical care regulated
Medical Care becomes a more regulated practice, more rules and standards helped paved the way for proper medical care -
1249
Spectacles invented
Roger Bacon an english philosopher invents spectacles -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Body dissection begins
Leonardo da Vinci starts dissecting corpes to gain a better understanding of the human body -
1543
Human Anatomy findings published
Vesalius publishes his findings on human anatomy in a series of books called De Fabrica Corporis Humani -
Blood transfusions experimented on
Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions -
Blood Cells discovered
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells -
Bacteria discovered
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria a little over a decade after discovering blood cells -
First attempt at smallpox vaccination
Giacomo Pylarini makes the first successful attempts to cure smallpox -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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First appendectomy preformed
Claudius Aymand preforms the first appendectomy (removal of the appendix) -
First stethoscope invented
Rene Laennec invents the first stethoscope, another break through for medical instruments -
First Human Blood Transfusion
James Blundell succsessfully preformed the first human blood transfusion -
Rene Laennec invents the syringe
The invention of the syringe is one of the most important inventions in medical history. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner classifies blood groups
Karl Landsteiner was the first to classify blood into A, B, or O -
Tuberculosis vaccine created
TB's first successful vaccine was created -
Penicillin discovered
Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin -
Influenza vaccine created
Influenza's, a very common illness, had its first vaccine created -
Pneumonia
Pneumonia finally had a vaccine to drop its lethality rate -
Period: to
21st Century
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Discovery of the Circadian clock
The circadian clock is a tiny cluster of nerves behind the eye that controls how the brain regulates the daily rhythms of the body -
Doctors can accurately predict risk of kidney failure in patients
Andrzej Krolewski found two key markers that, when elevated in the bloodstream, accurately predict the risk of kidney failure in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. -
Tumor suppressing gene
Tumors could now be suppressed thanks to a break through in research can control the speed in which tumors grow -
Amy Wagers and Richard T. Lee discover a reversing of cardiac hypertrophy
GDF-11 has the ability to reverse the effects of cardiac hypertrophy and can reduce the risk of heartfailure -
Bio-artificial Replacement limb
Research for the first bio artificial forelimb able to be transplanted on humans has begun
