-
400
Greeks
B.C.E -
400
Dark and Middle Ages
to 1400 B.C.E -
460
Hippocrates
BC -
500
Egyptians
B.C.E -
500
Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
BC -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus discovered America
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William Harvey
described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart -
The Renaissance
AD or CE -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
invented the microscope -
Edward Jenner
discovered the vaccination for smallpox -
Joseph Lister
the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision -
Rene Laennec
invented the stethoscope -
Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic
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Robert Koch
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Clara Barton
Angle Of the Battlefield -
First vaccine developed for cholera
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AIDs were founded
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First contact lenses developed
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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Jonas Salk
discovered an altered polio virus vaccine -
First vaccine developed for measles.
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Louise Brown
1st test tube baby -
Albert Sabin
creator of the pral polio vaccine which was more effective than Salk's vaccine