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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
- The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years
- Medicine practiced only in monasteries and convents
- Herbal medicine was used
- Many plagues and epidemics (bubonic plague, smallpox, diphthenria, syphillis, tuberculosis)
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Jan 1, 1249
Roger Bacon
Invents spectacles -
Jan 1, 1300
First Dissection
First dissection of human corpse -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
- Rebirth of science
- Medical schools were built
- Printing press made books possible and knowledge was shared
- The study of the body by dissection was accepted
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William Harvey
Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Created the first mercury thermometer -
Benjamin Franklin
Invents bifocals -
Edward Jenner
Developed a vaccine for smallpox -
René Laënnec
Invents the stethoscope. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Also inspired Florence NIghtingale to pursue nursing. -
Louis Pasteur
Identifies germs as cause of disease -
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
Establish the germ theory of disease -
Joseph Lister
Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery -
Clara Barton
Founded the American Red Cross -
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
German physicist discovers x-rays -
William Roentgen
Discovered x-rays in 1895 -
Marie Curie
Isolated radium in 1910 -
Insulin
Insulin first used to treat diabetes -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin -
Influenza
First vaccine for influenza was discovered -
John Hopps
Invented the first cardiac pacemaker -
Jonas Salk
Developed the polio vaccine -
Christian Barnard
Performed the world's first heart transplant surgery
