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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Jan 26, 1030
One of the most important medical books of its time was written by the physician Avicenna
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for sick
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Jan 26, 1347
an outbreak of bubonic plague broke out in Istanbul
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renaissance
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William Harvey published his new theory that the heart acts as a muscular pump which circulates blood around the body in the blood vessels
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Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi identified capillaries which finally showed the link between arteries and veins
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Period: to
Industrial revolution
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Surgery was greatly improved by the discovery of Anesthetics.
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the discovery of the anaesthetics ether, chloroform and cocaine allowed surgeons to take more time and care over operations
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Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
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X-rays were discovered by the German Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen
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Period: to
Modern World
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Different human blood types were discovered by Karl Landsteiner
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Alexander Fleming discovers pencillin
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The last case of naturally-transmitted smallpox was reported in Africa
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the World Health Organisation announced that the deadly smallpox virus had been completely eradicated.
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A surgical robot was created by Dr Yik San Kwoh
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Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
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large hospitals were involved in the training and licensing of doctors and pharmacists.
