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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
The study of medical science stopped. Medicine practived only in monasteries and covents. There were many plauges and epidemics. -
Jan 1, 1000
1000s First school of medicine established in Salerno, Italy
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Jan 1, 1300
1300s First dissection of human corspe
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
Rebirth of science: Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine. -
Jan 1, 1450
Printing Press
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Jan 1, 1500
1500s First scientific study of human anatomy published
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Andreas Vesallius & Lenardo Da Vinci: dissected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings
William Harvey: described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
Anton Von Leeuwennoek: invented the microscope -
1600s Blood circulation first described and bacteria discovered
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Eighteenth Century
Rene Laennec: invented the stethoscope
Benjamin Franklin: invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person
Edward Jenner: vaccinaion for smallpox -
America becomes independent
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Elizabeth Blackweel become the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S.
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Civil War
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Germ theory introduced
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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Rabies vaccine discovered
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William Roentgen discovered X-rays
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Marie Curie isolated radium
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WWI
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
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WWII
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Jonas Salk develeoped the polio vaccine
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Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery
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First test-tube baby born
Louise Brown -
AIDS was identified in early 1980's
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Scientists clone sheep
Dolly the sheep
