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500
Surgeons relied on opiates for anethesia and poured wine on wounds as an antispectic.
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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 1010
Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and the Canon of Medicine
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Jan 1, 1140
Roger of Sicily forbid anyone from practicing medicine without a license.
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1347
The most challenging problems was the Bubonic Plague in Istanbul (Turkey)
In some areas the Bubonic Plague killed up to 90% of the population. -
Jan 1, 1489
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
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Jan 1, 1494
Syphillis was first recored in Europe
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Jan 1, 1500
Zacharius Jannsenn invents the microscope.
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Jan 1, 1527
Paracelsus cured a leg infection without amputation.
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Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius published and illustrated anatomy text.
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Jan 1, 1545
Gabriele Falloppio descriped the female reproductive organs giving his name to the fallopian tubes.
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Jan 1, 1547
Girolamo Fabrizo identified the valves of the heart.
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Learned that blood circulated around the body.
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments on dogs and experiments with canine blood transfusions
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells.
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James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevents Scruvy.
Scruvy is common in sailors. -
Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox.
Exposde them to cowpox virus. He rubbed the pus of cowpox onto the arm of a gardeners 8 year old son and then exposes him to smallpox, which he does not get. -
Period: to
Modern World
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First successful human blood transfusion.
They used Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique. -
Dr. Paul Dudley White becomes one of America's first cardiologist
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes
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Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney implants between identical twins.
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DNA of an extinct wooly mammoth was spliced into an elephant.
Scientist successfully used the revived DNA to sequence the mammot's complete genome. -
Persian doctor named Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
