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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
-Study of Medical Science stopped for over 1000 years -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
-Rebirth of Science -
Jan 1, 1500
First disections of bodys and anatomic drawings
-Andreas Vesalius & Leonardo Da Vinci dissected human bodies and made the first anatomic drawings -
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek Invented the microscope
-Anton Von Leeuwenhoek -
William Harvey described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the human heart
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Benjamin Franklin found that colds could be passed from person to person
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Benjamin Franklin Invented Bifocals
-Benjamin Franklin -
Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox
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Louis Pasteur -Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria
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Rene Laenneo Invented the stethoscrope
-Rene Laennec -
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing
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Florence Nightingale started the first school of nursing
-during the Grimean War
-Made nursing an honarable profession -
First vaccine developed for cholera
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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First contact lenses deveopled
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William roentgen discovered X-rays in 1895
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Marie Curie Isolated radium
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Period: to
World War I
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
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Period: to
World War II
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine
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First vaccine developed for measles.
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Christian Barnard perfromed the worlds first heart transplant surgery
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Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans
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Louis Brown was born
-First test tube baby
-In Great Britian -
Period: to
AIDS was an epedemic
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
