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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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Sep 9, 1000
Healing scrolls were originated
-Middle Ages -
Sep 9, 1100
Medical schools throughout Europe
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1340
The University at Montpellier included a school of anatomy
-Middle Ages -
Sep 10, 1494
Shiphilis was first recorded in Europe
renaissance -
Sep 9, 1500
Galenic Theories had great longevity prevailing in Western Europe
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Sep 10, 1527
First time leg was cured without amputation
renaissance -
Sep 10, 1537
Girolamo Fabrizio identified the valves of the heart
renaissance -
Sep 11, 1540
In 1540 Vesalius gives a public demonstration of the inaccuracies of Galen's anatomical theories
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Sep 10, 1564
Andreas Vesalius presented the first largely accurate description of the human body
renaissance -
Period: to
industrial revolution
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William Harvey published his new theory that the heart acts as a muscular pump that circulates the blood around the body
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René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
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British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
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Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to receive a medical degree
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First vaccine for cholera
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Period: to
The modern world
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South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant.
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First vaccine for meningitis.
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First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell (dies in 2003).
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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Rhazes discovered differince between smallpox and measles
-Middle Ages
